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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Series
International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management volume 34, no. 11
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When recent acts of shoplifting at the mall make store owners suspicious of the bear cubs who hang out there, the cubs decide to find out who the real shoplifters are.
6) Klepto
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Kat dreads her sister's returning home. Kat starts to shoplift and as her sister's return approaches, the shoplifting escalates into a full-blown addiction.
Author
Series
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 32
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
When Buster impulsively drops a Cybertoy into Arthur's backpack in the drugstore one day, he feels so guilty that he finally confesses to his friend and they try to return the popular toy before anyone else finds out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the mall hires Junior to look into the shoplifting...
10) White ivy
Author
Language
English
Description
"White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the...
11) Good eggs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family--perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker...
13) When a man falls
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a lonely housewife faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary, she seeks comfort in unlawful and forbidden activities. While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles, he doesn't realize that things are falling apart around him-- until it's too late.
15) Cages
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...