Carine Montbertrand
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Frightmares volume 5
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English
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Enjoying the antique doll display at the museum, Kayo Benton and Rosie Saunders are amazed when they encounter a ghost with a tragic secret just before they are trapped among the exhibits by a pair of ruthless thieves.
42) Desert danger
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Frightmares volume 4
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English
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Rosie and Kayo's new Care Club project leads to a frightening kidnapping.
43) Race to disaster
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Frightmares volume 6
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English
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When a nursing home resident witnesses a murder and is abducted by the killer, Care Club members Rosie and Kayo set out to rescue the old man.
44) Shrimp
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Cyd Charisse trilogy volume 2
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English
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Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.
45) Backstage fright
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Frightmares volume 8
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English
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Rosie and Kayo investigate an art scandal at the Oakwood Community Center.
46) Screaming eagles
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Frightmares volume 7
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English
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When Care Club members Rosie and Kayo observe a man stealing a bald eaglet from its nest, they track him to his cabin in the middle of North Cascades National Park.
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Frightmares volume 2
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English
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When Bone Breath began barking at the vandals who were destroying the school statue, Rosie tried to rescue him, only to be caught be the vandals herself. Now it's up to her friend Kayo to find her.
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English
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With a Book Sense Pick to her credit, author Bonnie Dobkin offers a suspenseful adventure story for young adult readers. In Neptune's Children, the world is suddenly thrown into turmoil by a biological attack that leaves no adult alive. The children who were enjoying a day at the Isles of Wonder amusement park, however, are prepared to build a new life for themselves.
49) Family Tree
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English
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Tyler Stoudt's first assignment in sixth grade is to make a family tree. Tyler has no idea how she will complete the project. The only family she has is Papa. Determined to do her best, she begins to ask her father questions about their family. When he becomes angry, Tyler wonders if the truth is worth the hurt she is causing. But her need to know outweighs everything else, and she presses him for answers. The story he reveals to her is nothing she...
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Sixth-grader Kayo Benton and her friend Rosie are busy trying to find a good home for old Mrs. Tallie's cat, Muffin. But when Rosie gets a menacing phone call warning her to stay away from the old woman, the girls begin to realize that it isn't just the cat that needs help. In her stately mansion, Mrs. Tallie is getting sicker each day. Her gardener keeps chasing Kayo and Rosie away. And there's a poisonous plant sitting near Mrs. Tallie's garden....
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English
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Harley Columba may still be in high school, but she's growing up fast. With trouble at home and a stunted social life, she feels more like a survivor than a student. The only thing that keeps her sane is drawing and painting. The man who calls himself her father is a drunken jerk. He and Harley don't look alike, and her mother refuses to talk about the past. To make sense of her life, Harley decides she must find out the truth about her father: his...
52) Lauryn Hill
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English
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From the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstare series, this biography showcases the life of one of today's most popular singers.
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English
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This extraordinary fantasy teams together two delightful characters: Varloo, from the secret underground Druid caves known as Hek, and Dougie, from the lands above this civilization, suburban California. These two unlikely heroes realize that a plan to build a development on the land above the caves must be stopped in order to preserve their existence. Luckily, Dougie's mom is an attorney who tries to keep the developers at bay for environmental reasons....
54) Jennifer Lopez
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English
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This Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars book features the young diva who has taken the country by storm with a dynamic singing voice and notable acting credits.
55) Cameron Diaz
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English
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This biography, from the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, traces the rise to fame of one of today's most popular movie stars.
56) Refund: stories
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English
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"We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn't. How you get it. How you don't. In Refund, Bender creates an award-winning collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the estimation of value affect the lives of her characters. The stories in Refund reflect our contemporary world-swindlers, reality show creators, desperate artists, siblings, parents - who try to answer the question: What...
57) Edge of darkness
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Dark series volume 27
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English
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Dark crime: Blaze seeks revenge for her father's death in this new story set in the world of the Carpathians. Dead by twilight: A female vampire joins a mortal detective to catch a vampire on a murder spree. Cimarron spirit: Archeologist Annie Carmichael literally unearths a vampire who believes she is his mate.
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English
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Famed Holocaust memoirist Heda Margoulis Kovaly knits her own terrifying experiences in Soviet Prague into a powerful, Raymond Chandler-esque work of literary suspense. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure from a State Security agent.
A loyal Party member...
59) Canaan: a novel
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English
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This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries...
60) Give a boy a gun
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English
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Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.