Julia Marshall
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Detective Gordon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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The detective lay in bed with his eyes closed. But he couldn't sleep. He was thinking. He always thought best in bed. Especially with his eyes closed. Something is going on in the forest: one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Who is the culprit? Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must investigate! But this is a complicated case. The two police officers split...
2) A bird day
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"'Wash your beaks, it’s time for lunch—flies again today,' says Dad. After lunch the young birds get sent off to play—they sing, hunt mosquitos, compare leg size and poke grubs. This is how birds spend a day. Eva Lindström reflects the familiar and the absurd in human behaviour through this funny bird family. We all recognise the family dynamics of bickering over fried mosquitos and worm pie—only the youngest is allowed to pick out the worms."...
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Series
Dani books (Rose Lagercrantz) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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It's Dani's first summer vacation and she is staying on an island with Ella, her best friend in the world. Dad is still in hospital but he calls every day, and Ella and Dani stay busy building huts, fishing, exploring, and swimming. Then Dad turns up, but with his nurse too! This is not the visit anyone had imagined and Dani isn't sure her life is happy any more.
6) The runaways
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest--the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
8) The ape star
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"Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It’s a gorilla! Surely the orphanage won’t let a gorilla...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Far up in the north is a blueberry-blue house with a grass roof, where Lisa and Nils live. One day a tourist arrives: Otto has cycled for months, maybe years to visit his friends and to see the northern lights. But Otto is from a land where it's always warm. He had no idea it could get so cold up here"--Back cover.
11) A case for Buffy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The final story in this big-hearted series takes on the most important case ever investigated in Detective Gordon's forest -- where is Buffy's mother? Gordon faces his old nemesis, the fox, in an investigation that leads to the edges of the forest.
12) The stone giant
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A read-aloud storybook about cunning, courage and survival in which a girl sets out to save her father from the giant who turns everyone she meets to stone."--publisher
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most delicious blackberries. In the third we meet Bo, the little man with the big overcoat, who finds it hard to sleep. Finally, Little Bear falls asleep, and there in bed beside her are her new storybook friends....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing. Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped her for the horse girls. Eleven-year-old...
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