C. J. Critt
1) Metro girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who's good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance. And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking like glue. Lula's big...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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A Featured Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club and a Main Selection of the Mystery Guild
Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of One for the Money, Two for the Dough, and Three to Get Deadly, scores big with Four to Score, her most thrilling Stephanie Plum adventure yet.
Working for her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie, Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty and "most popular mystery writer alive" (The New York Times), Janet Evanovich's Two for the Dough is irresistibly fun and powerful suspense entertainment featuring beloved bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.
It's the return of Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (a.k.a. bounty hunter), introduced to us in the award-winning and bestselling...
It's the return of Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (a.k.a. bounty hunter), introduced to us in the award-winning and bestselling...
6) Motor mouth
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First, there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's convinced one of the competitors is up...
7) High five
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum of Trenton, New Jersey, searches for her missing uncle in this comic, over-the-top mystery. The search is complicated by her having to fend off a stalking rapist and decide what to wear to a Mafia wedding.
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee...
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Publisher
Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new...
10) Hot six
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Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos. Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sweetheart roses -- the traditional gift of lovers. Yet they had been an important clue in the murder 10 years ago of strikingly beautiful Suzanne Reardon, whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder. Kerry McGrath had only begun to work in the county prosecutor's office at the time of the infamous "Sweetheart Murder Case," yet she remembers being impressed by both the ability her new boss, Frank Green, displayed in successfully...
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Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Alice Goodwin begins the unremarkable June day much as every other on the small dairy farm. Suddenly, within the span of minutes, Alice's map of her world is forever altered when her neighbor's two-year-old-left with Alice for the morning-wanders away and drowns in the farm pond. In the style of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller, award-winning author Hamilton composes an emotionally charged story of guilt, atonement and love that immerses...