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The Trouble With Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery

Author: 
Doreen Cronin
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Reading Level: Grades 2-3

When J.J. Tully, a retired search and rescue dog, agrees to help a frantic mother hen find her missing chicks, he finds himself locked in a desperate struggle with an evil dachshund named "Vinnie the Funnel."

 

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The Ring of Solomon

Author: 
Jonathan Stroud
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Reading Level: Grades 6-8

The Bartimeaus trilogy chronicled the demon's misadventures while under the control of an 11-year-old magician. In this prequel Stroud shares one of the djinni's earlier adventures as the very reluctant slave of the evil Khaba, an ambitions magician in the court of King Solomon who rules Jerusalem with the help of the powerful slave of the ring.

Gorgeous

Author: 
Rachel Vail
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Reading Level: Grades 7-9

14-year-old Allison feels like the boring filling in a beauty sandwich. Her blonde, perfect, talented older sister can do no wrong while in their parents eyes and Allison's younger sister is everybody's darling. Allison only gets her parents' attention when she is in trouble (which usually isn't her fault).

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Author: 
Lish McBride
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Reading Level: Grades 8 and up

It all started when Sam broke a taillight during a game of parking lot potato hockey. Sam and Brooke did what most teenagers would do..they ran. When Douglas Montgomery stormed into Plumpy's, his only thoughts were of his broken taillight and retribution. When he noticed Sam his fury raged. How dare a young necromancer infringe on his territory?

Emily's Fortune

Author: 
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Reading Level: Grades 3-5

After she is orphaned, young Emily makes the best of her situation, writing to her favorite aunt for a place to live. Unfortunately, the Catchum Child Catching Services have other plans - Emily must live with her closest blood relative, something Aunt Hilda is not. Instead, she is supposed to live with her money-grubbing, mustached Uncle Victor. What in the flippin' flapjacks is Emily supposed to do?!?!

The Trouble with Chickens

Author: 
Doreen Cronin
Illustrator: 
Kevin Cornell
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Reading Level: Grades 2-4

Jonathan Joseph Tully, a retired Search and Rescue dog, is hired by worried mother Millicent to find her two missing chicks, Poppy and Sweetie – but this SAR mission is not as simple as it seems.

The Boy Who Howled

Author: 
Timothy Power
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Reading Level: Grades 4 - 6

Stanley's Little Sister

Author: 
Linda Bailey
Illustrator: 
Bill Slavin
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Reading Level: Ages 3 - 6

Stanley KNOWS he shouldn't chase the new cat, but the cat, who rejects all of Stanley's attempts at friendship, makes it very hard not to.

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I Shall Wear Midnight

Author: 
Terry Pratchett
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Reading Level: Grades 6 - 8

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