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Thriller
This volume provides a collection of ghostly and mysterious stories.
1 online resource (viii, 272 p.) 2011
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Adler, David A.
Cam Jansen and the Wedding Cake Mystery
When Cam and her father go to a talent show at the local senior center, Cam's help is needed to find out who stole a wedding cake from the delivery truck.
1 sound file (45 min.) 2011
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Almond, David
The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon
There are some strange ideas floating around in Paul's apartment block. There's Molly, who now calls herself Clara, whose brother hides under a paper bag. Then there's Clarence, the poodle who thinks he can fly. But the strangest notion of all is Paul's. Paul believes that the moon is not the moon but a great hole in the sky. And he knows that sausages are better than war.
1 sound file (1 hr., 32 min., 43 sec.) 2010
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Birney, Betty G.
Summer According to Humphrey
In his sixth adventure, Humphrey heads off for the great outdoors.When Humphrey hears that school is ending, he panics. School ends? What's a classroom hamster to do if he's not in school? But as it turns out, there's something thrilling in store for Humphrey and Og the frog: going to Camp Happy Hollow with Ms...
1 sound file 2010
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Buckley, Michael
The Fairy-tale Detectives
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
1 sound file (6 hr., 15 min.) 2006
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Byng, Georgia
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Molly Moon has spent her entire life in a miserable orphanage run by the hairy, snaggletoothed Miss Adderson. But when she finds a mysterious book, Molly discovers an extraordinary talent, she can hypnotize anyone!
2004
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Christopher, Matt
Out at Second
When the Grizzlies' shortstop is sidelined two days before the playoffs, catcher Manny Griffin and second baseman Stu Fletcher decide to help his replacement, Sean, become a better player. During practice, Sean unleashes a wild throw that hits Stu! Stu is dazed, but insists that he's fine and the team needs him. But Manny notices Stu is acting a little funny and he wonders if his friend is injured.....
1 sound file 2011
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Cleary, Beverly
Henry Huggins
When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.
2004
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Creech, Sharon
Love That Dog
Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments and Jack can't avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say.
2005
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Cronin, Doreen
The Trouble with Chickens : a J.J. Tully Mystery
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.
2011
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Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The Mighty Miss Malone
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother Jimmie go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan...
1 sound file (7 hr., 54 min., 31 sec.) 2012
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Dahl, Roald
James and the Giant Peach
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
2004
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Defoe, Gideon.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits : An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab : Two Novels
Contains two books that follow Pirate Captain and his crew as they go on an unusual London adventure on Charles Darwin's "Beagle," and then set out on a new vessel to capture the white whale hunted by Ahab.
2012
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Flanagan, John (John Anthony)
The Outcasts
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
1 online resource (434 p.) 2011
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Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Inkspell
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
2005
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Gaiman, Neil
The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection
"The day I swapped my dad for two goldfish": An unforgettable story that will take readers on a journey into the murky mind of a young boy and the perils of striking a bargain. "The wolves in the walls": Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out. "Cinnamon": This charming fable of an exotic princess who refuses to speak currently exists only on Neil's official website and has never been published in print or any other format. "Crazy hair": Bonnie tries to comb the narrator's crazy hair, where gorillas leap and tigers stalk, and is in for a surprise in this delightful rhyming tale.
2005
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Hahn, Mary Downing
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
1 sound file 2011
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Hahn, Mary Downing.
Closed for the Season : a Mystery Story
The weather-beaten sign on the gate of the Magic Forest says closed for the season. But when the boys ride up to the gate on their bikes, Arthur tells his new friend, Logan, that the old amusement park hasn't been open for years. Kudzu vines have grown over everything, making the park look sinister even in broad daylight, so Logan is reluctant to go inside, but Arthur urges him on...
1 sound file 2011
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Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in Paradise
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
2010
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Horvath, Polly
Northward to the Moon
When her stepfather loses his job in Saskatchewan, Jane and the rest of the family set off on a car trip, ending up in Nevada after improbably being given a bag full of possibly stolen money.
2010
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