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...
2) Loop group
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Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author Larry McMurtry is one of America's best novelists. Several of his books are modern classics, including Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Now McMurtry delivers a funny yet sobering road trip novel reminiscent of Thelma and Louise and featuring two of the most original women to appear in fiction for quite some time. Maggie...
4) Judy Moody
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A lot of Marilyn's friends have monsters. It's the latest thing. Each one is just right for its boy or girl. Marilyn really wants a monster, too, but despite her efforts to be the kind of girl no monster could resist, hers just doesn't come. What could be taking it so long? Everyone knows you just have to wait for your monster - but the spunky and determined Marilyn thinks there may be other ways that things can work.
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[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2019.
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In That's Not a Hippopotamus, a class trip to the zoo descends into a chaotic hunt for the missing hippopotamus. Teacher, zookeeper and all the children join the search. The noise and drama reach a pitch, and no one thinks to listen to quiet Liam.
8) Rum pum pum
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[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Rrrrh!" means "Let's be friends" in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle "rum-pum-pum" of the drum can help him. The lonely tiger finds a drum. He strikes it with his tail--and friends start to follow: a monkey who says "chee-chee-chee" which means "I will come too" in monkey talk, a rhino who says "ouggh" which means "I will come too" in rhino talk, a parrot that says "scree-awk," a chameleon, an...
10) 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...
11) 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.
12) Hero at large
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HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
c2010
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It seems like good luck when Ken Callahan stops to help single mom Chris Nelson with her car. Yet, after Ken moves into Chris' basement, a series of comic mishaps threatens to destroy their happiness. It'll take a meddlesome Aunt Edna, a ride on a Zamboni, and a genuine love of family to turn their luck around.
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Pub. Date
2008
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Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
14) The bean trees
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Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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...
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Publishers Weekly declares that the "leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure." Judge Knott is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down-or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge in the high country of North Carolina. But ugly murder haunts the beauty of the Smoky Mountains.
16) Smitten
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HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
c2006
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Single mom Lizabeth Kane isn't exactly carpenter material -- she's never picked up a hammer in her life. But she desperately needs the construction job that builder Matt Hallahan is offering. And even though he knows trouble is ahead, Matt can't refuse Lizbeth's irresistible smile. Matt Hallahan isn't exactly relationship material -- he has always been too busy working on other people's houses to make a home of his own. And even though she knows better,...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
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A classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines is the powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California coast. Fault Lines is one of her finest, a truly stunning read from a novelist acclaimed for her wondrous array of literary masterworks-from Sweetwater Creek to Up Island through Low Country and Nora Nora.
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Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
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Best-selling and award-winning author of the popular Glenbrooke and Christy Miller series, Robin Jones Gunn has sold over 3 million copies of her books worldwide. In Sisterchicks on the Loose!, gal pals Sharon and Penny take off on an adventure. Sharon is not prepared for Penny's latest wild scheme. But this time, Penny won't take no for an answer. Despite initially dragging her feet, Sharon is following Penny-all the way to Finland! The minute they...