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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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When Fletcher Moon, the youngest detective in the world, is framed for a crime he did not commit, he must team up with the unlikeliest of allies, run from the authorities, and solve the case within twelve hours to clear his name.
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Timmy Failure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.
5) Zero to hero
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Timmy Failure volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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World-famous detective Timmy Failure recounts how he began solving mysteries and how he got his famous red scarf.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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From the publisher. Iris Anderson is only 15, but she's quickly mastering the art of deception in this YA novel for fans of Veronica Mars. It's the fall of 1942 and Iris's world is rapidly changing. Her Pop is back from the war with a missing leg, limiting his ability to do the physically grueling part of his detective work. Iris is dying to help, especially when she discovers that one of Pop's cases involves a boy at her school. Now, instead of sitting...
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Timmy Failure volume no. 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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The irrepressibly overconfident young sleuth resolves to catapult his detective agency to global fame through the Miracle Report in spite of a temporary setback involving academic probation.
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Timmy Failure volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...
9) Jackaby
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Jackaby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
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Timmy Failure volume 1
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©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.
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Timmy Failure volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. Follow the clues and help solve three of his most head-scratchingly bizarre cases in this first book of the series.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Late 1942 in New York City finds fifteen-year-old Iris helping more with her father's detective business, as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques, but her investigation into her mother's supposed suicide gets Iris in big trouble--and not just with her father.
14) Kiss of death
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Morganville vampires volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some dates. Which means that Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Private Eye Princess King and her beagle, Pants, have come to Snells Manor to try and find Daisy Snells's missing emerald, called the "pea"; nobody has left the house since the gem went missing, but there are many secret places to search, and the inhabitants are an eccentric bunch--none more so than Miss Daisy herself.
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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"On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost treasure. She's excited to finally meet her arriving relatives--until...
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Jackaby volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Sherlockian detective of the supernatural R. F. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook, search for their ghostly landlady Jenny Cavanaugh's murderer and fight their most fearsome foe yet in the highly anticipated third volume of this New York Times best-selling paranormal mystery series.Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly landlord of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve a decade-old murder - her own....
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Chicken Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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They're darling. They're daring. They know their shapes! They're chicks on a mission, and on this, their first (mis)adventure, the Chicken Squad launches a galactic backyard expedition. Meet the Chicken Squad: Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie. These chicks are not your typical barnyard puffs of fluff, and they are not about to spend their days pecking chicken feed and chasing bugs. No sir, they're too busy solving mysteries and fighting crime. So when...