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Language
English
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Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who bonds with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
3) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
4) Deadline
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
7) Noodle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
While the Petersons are enjoying a winter picnic at Loon Lake Park, Lizzie rescues a lost puppy in trouble and then sets out to find its owner.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 21
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Nate and his dog Sludge are determined to find the recipe for his mother's monster cookies.
10) Busy Bea
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Bea is too busy to keep track of her own belongings but she always knows just where things are for her grandmother.
11) Snow music
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a dog gets loose from the house on a snowy day, his owner searches for him and experiences the sounds of various animals and things in the snow.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 22
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Nate the Great goes to San Francisco to solve a mystery with his cousin, Olivia Sharp, who is also a detective.
13) Adele and Simon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more.
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
"In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit when a prized possession goes missing at school"--
16) Lost
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Because he never gives up hope that his beagle, lost in the desert, will be found, the young master keeps something special in his pocket for his dog.
19) Home before dark
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
A little girl drops her teddy bear in the park, and he struggles to make it home to her before it gets dark.