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Series
Great brain ; 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes." --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her supposed best friend implicates her in a cheating and blackmail scam, twelve-year-old Bernie loses her private school scholarship but, with the help of a new friend, spends the summer using her knowledge of magic and sleight-of-hand both to earn the $9,000 in tuition money and to get revenge.
27) A good horse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
28) New in town
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea."--
30) Witchtown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they arrive in Witchtown, everything changes for a teenager and her mother, who travel to witch-only communities, lying, cheating, and stealing everything they can--leaving behind only a powerful spell that erases them from the memories of everyone they have ever met.
When Macie O'Sullivan and her manipulative mother Aubra arrive at the gates of Witchtown-- the most famous and mysterious witch-only haven in the world-- they have one goal in...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must decide who he wants to be before disappearing."--
32) Queen of volts
Author
Series
Shadow Game ; 3
Language
English
Description
Return to the City of Sin, where the perilous final game is about to begin ...The players? Twenty-two of the most powerful, most notorious people in New Reynes. With no choice but to play, Enne and Levi are desperate to forge new alliances and bargain for their safety. But any misstep could turn deadly when a far more dangerous opponent appears on the board-- one plucked straight from the city's most gruesome legends. While Levi hides behind a mask...
35) Fly by night
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language to find a better life.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and his younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
Author
Series
Starbound ; 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Flynn, Jubilee, Tarver and Lilac forge ties with a computer hacker and a con artist on the planet of Corinth, where they team up to dismantle the corrupt LaRoux Industries." --
"A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now-infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness LaRoux Industries' corruption. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were the only survivors of the Icarus shipwreck, forced to live a double...
Author
Series
Agency ; 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
40) Fox tale
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Donkey, Crow, and Rabbit join forces to prevent Fox from swindling Bear out of a jar of honey.
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