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Mystery in Bugtown |
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| Author: |
William Boniface |
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0939251906 |
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Bad doings in Bugtown have the local insects bug-eyed. But Inspector Cricket is on the case to find out who tried to flatten local low life Charlie Roach. The second of Accord Publishing's phenomenally successful Eyeball Animation® books pits the Inspector against the craziest Insectiary of suspects that the bug world has ever seen. A pair of roaming eyeballs built into this high quality hardcover picture book wiggle and jiggle from page to page as this bugland whodunit unfolds in witty and catchy verse that is as much fun for parents to read as it is for the kids to hear. A fact-filled Insect Glossary at the back of the book makes it a great learning tool as well. Reading Rainbow Book recipient Jim Harris provides the same style of bold and striking illustrations that made Ten Little Dinosaurs a huge... |
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Where's Spot |
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Eric Hill |
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0399240462 |
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Already available in board book format, this very first Spot book now has a brand-new cover in a fresh, vibrant color that makes it jump off the shelf.
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Scooby-Doo and the Halloween Hotel Haunt |
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Jesse Leon McCann |
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0439117682 |
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Scooby and the Gang are invited to a Halloween costume party at a luxurious hotel. But when they arrive, they find the rest of the guests scared out of their wits. Someone at the party isn't just dressed as a phantom, he (or she) is a phantom!
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Curse of the Missing Puppet Head |
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Kinky Friedman |
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0970238363 |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Halloween Hotel Haunt |
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| Author: |
Jesse Leon McCann |
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0613297393 |
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Scooby and the Gang are invited to a Halloween costume party at a luxurious hotel. But when they arrive, they find the rest of the guests scared out of their wits. Someone at the party isn't just dressed as a phantom, he (or she) is a phantom!
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My Little Pony: Mystery Monster (My Little Pony) |
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Scout Driggs, Lyn Fletcher (Illustrator) |
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Daisy Jo loves working in her garden, until she spots a terrible monster! Now where will the ponies play? Luckily, Daisy Jo has some brave friends to help her solve the monster mystery.
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Dollhouse Murders |
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Betty Ren Wright |
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From Publishers Weekly
Wright's taut, suspenseful novel proves a solid choice to kick off the Live Oak Mysteries audio series. The attic is always a great place to look for nuggets of one's family history, but when 12-year-old Amy explores her great-grandparents' attic, she uncovers clues to a chilling family secret. As Amy and her Aunt Claire sift through clothes, trinkets and other memorabilia, Amy comes across Aunt Claire's long-forgotten dollhouse, a finely crafted replica of the house they are in. Aunt Claire seems unusually distressed about the dollhouse and Amy is determined to find out why. The real fun begins when Amy learns that the dolls in the dollhouse move of their own willAand that they seem to be trying to tell her something. After a little sleuthing at the local library, Amy learns that her great-grandparents were... |
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Dracula Is a Pain in the Neck |
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Elizabeth Levy |
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Is Dracula haunting Camp Hunter Creek?Kids started calling Robert a vampire because he brought his Dracula doll to camp. Now Robert is afraid their teasing made the real Dracula angry. Weird things have been happening. Unearthly howling noises have been heard after sundown. Even the counselors are getting spooked. Then one night Robert and his older brother, Sam, see something that chills their very bones.... Is the most famous vampire of them all really haunting Camp Hunter Creek? And if he is, will Robert be his next victim?
Card catalog description
Robert fears that his plastic Dracula doll is responsible for spooky doings at his sleep-away camp.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Scooby-Doo! and the Toy Store Terror |
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James Gelsey |
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061343885X |
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Book Description
Scooby and his friends are volunteering at an enormous toy store during the busy holiday season. But when a huge rag doll goes on a rampage, it looks like there¹s another mystery to solve! Can Scooby and the gang unmask the villain behind this toy store terror?
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The High-Rise Private Eyes #4: The Case of the Troublesome Turtle |
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Cynthia Rylant |
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0060013230 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 1-2-Bunny Brown, a rabbit, is attempting to paint a portrait of Jack Jones, a raccoon, when the owner of the toy store across the street enlists their help. Mr. Paris is troubled by the repeated theft of the balloons that he keeps tied outside his shop. Private eyes Bunny and Jack diligently follow the trail of clues, which leads them to a school football game. There they find the culprit and tie up loose ends so that everyone is happy and no one gets into trouble. This is a fast-moving introduction to the mystery genre. Emerging readers will be interested in how Bunny and Jack find, interpret, and follow up on clues. They will also get a chuckle from the solution. Karas's acrylic, gouache, and pencil illustrations have a simple, angular quality that suits the book's urban setting. Visible... |
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Blue's Treasure Hunt Notebook |
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Angela C. Santomero |
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0689825412 |
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Book Description
Look for additional Blue's Clues books -- board books, sticker books, and more!
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Freddy the Detective |
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Walter R. Brooks |
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"Oh, I am the King of Detectives, / And when I am out on the trail / All the animal criminals tremble, / And the criminal animals quail..." boasts Freddy, the poetry-prone, Sherlock Holmes-obsessed pig who stars in Walter R. Brooks's beloved series. From 1927 to 1958, Brooks wrote 26 Freddy books--including Freddy Goes to Florida--all focused on the well-rounded pig, who has been described by various fans as ingenious, intelligent, loyal, and resourceful. Since Brooks's books fell out of print, librarians across the country have scrounged up copies wherever possible, even resorting to photocopying the books and binding them with hockey-stick tape! To the delight of thousands, the fabulous Freddy books have been reprinted by Overlook Press! The intrigue of Freddy the Detective begins on the Bean Farm (Freddy's... |
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Art Fraud Detective |
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Anna Nilsen |
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0753453088 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8-A clever "spot the difference" book that also serves as a good introduction to art history. Using a comic-strip format, Nilsen alerts readers to the fact that 30 of these 34 paintings are fakes. A double spread identifies the 16 suspected forgers, the symbol their particular gang hides on each forgery, and the number of changes (one to four) they deliberately added to each painting. The premise is to figure out which character forged which classic piece, and to determine which one of them snitched. The paintings, which include Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asni?res and Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, are ingeniously depicted in their original and altered forms on split pages featuring the forgeries above and the museum catalog below. Readers are supposed to match up the forger with the artwork (a... |
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The Eye of the Pharaoh: A Pop-Up Whodunit |
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Iain Smyth |
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0525454276 |
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Midwest Book Review
Kids will relish an unusual pop-up whodunit which features three possible endings. Pull tabs, lift flaps, and locate clues to discover who did it - then turn a wheel and the final clue changes, developing a new mystery in the process.
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The Stuffed Bear Mystery (The Boxcar Children Series #90), Vol. 90 |
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Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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0807555134 |
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
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Stephen King, et al |
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Pop-Up
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Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost. Trisha's odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um... |
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Where Are Maisy's Friends |
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Lucy Cousins |
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0763611190 |
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"Who's that hiding under the table?" Maisy and her friends are playing hide-and-seek. Share in Maisy's delight as she finds Charlie the crocodile (in plaid Bermuda shorts!) under the bed, Cyril the squirrel behind the shower curtain, and Eddie the elephant squeezed into the closet. Each big, easy-to-grip flap lifts to reveal another hidden friend. Fans of funny little Maisy mouse will love this simple interactive board book based on every preschooler's favorite game. As in Lucy Cousins's many other picture books, the bold, bright illustrations are outlined in heavy black, framed cleanly in white. The repetitive text ("Who's that hiding...?") will appeal to early readers as they begin to match the words to the pictures. Seek out all the rest of the absolutely charming Maisy books, including Maisy Takes a Bath, Maisy... |
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Searching for Oliver K. Woodman |
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Darcy Pattison, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) |
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0152051848 |
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2–Another delightful offering about the famous American traveler introduced in The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt, 2003). Here, the wooden gentleman was heading toward the West Coast, but seems to have disappeared. Two months without a word prods his creator, Uncle Ray, and his niece, Tameka, to get help from Paige Hall, a newspaper reporter. After two more weeks without a sighting, Uncle Ray hires Imogene Poplar, private investigator, to track the fellow down. With the aid of concerned citizens, Imogene is close on Oliver's trail, but is always a bit too late to catch up with him. The travels take the pair separately through New York City; Hershey, PA; Chicago, and Sioux Falls, SD. Postcards, letters, and newspaper articles relate Imogene's experiences, while the full-spread,... |
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Case of the Disappearing Dinosaur |
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James Preller |
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0439306396 |
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Missing hamsters, lost coins, haunted houses...Jigsaw Jones has seen it all before. With his top secret detective journal, eye for detail, and ace partner Mila, Jigsaw is always ready to take on a new case.Now you see it, now you don't! Danika is doing a magic act at Bigs's birthday party. For her biggest trick, she makes Bigs's favorite toy disappear. Poof--it's gone! But where did it go? Even Danika doesn't know. Time for Jigsaw and Mila to use their own tricks and fix this mixed-up magic.
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Mapped Out! |
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Carol Baicker-McKee |
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0879057882 |
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From School Library Journal
Gr 4-6--Readers must follow specific directions and use map-reading skills to find the petnapper of Snookums, a rare iguana. Each step successfully solved will lead children to a particular page as the detective work continues. Solving the mystery requires the use of a street index, stadium-seating diagram, park and city map, shopping-mall directory, museum visitors' guide, telephone book, train schedule, travel itinerary, and subway map. The mystery unfolds in a picture-book format with bright, cartoon-style art. The city map and ransom note are separate items and kept in special pockets. The text has a breezy, humorous tone. It will take most children several hours (in several sittings) to solve the mystery. Mistakes in following the directions will usually lead to a dead end rather than sending readers... |
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Troy's Amazing Universe |
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S. Tosten |
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0974318515 |
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Dollhouse Murders |
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Betty Ren Wright |
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0823404978 |
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From Publishers Weekly
Wright's taut, suspenseful novel proves a solid choice to kick off the Live Oak Mysteries audio series. The attic is always a great place to look for nuggets of one's family history, but when 12-year-old Amy explores her great-grandparents' attic, she uncovers clues to a chilling family secret. As Amy and her Aunt Claire sift through clothes, trinkets and other memorabilia, Amy comes across Aunt Claire's long-forgotten dollhouse, a finely crafted replica of the house they are in. Aunt Claire seems unusually distressed about the dollhouse and Amy is determined to find out why. The real fun begins when Amy learns that the dolls in the dollhouse move of their own willAand that they seem to be trying to tell her something. After a little sleuthing at the local library, Amy learns that her great-grandparents were... |
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A Question of Time |
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Dina Anastasio |
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0595333559 |
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Syd Stowe was a city person, and when it was time to leave New york and her best friend Jill, she wasn't happy at all. But Syd soon found a friend in her new small Midwestern town, and everything seemed to be fine...until she discoverd the secret of the ghost dolls. Why did her new best friend, Laura, look so much like a doll that had lived a long, long time ago? And what was the connection between Laura and the old man who made the dolls? As Syd investigates and solves the mystery, she learns some valuable lessons.
Card catalog description
Shortly after moving to a small town in Minnesota, a young girl's curiosity is aroused by four carved dolls resembling her great-grandfather's family.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Invisible Ink Pen Kit: Communicate Without a Trace (International Spy Museum Series) |
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Joelle Herr, et al |
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0762425075 |
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Write your loved one a private note. Hide a secret message in your child's lunch. Unsettle your rival at a business meeting. Now you can practice your espionage skills--without leaving a paper trail! This whimsically serious kit will delight fledgling spies. Included is an invisible ink pen with a miniature black light to reveal cryptic messages. The text in the 32-page book--drawn from the expertise of the International Spy Museum (the only museum of its kind, solely dedicated to espionage)--contains instructions on how to best utilize this covert device, and includes blank notebook pages for use with the pen. The kit also includes a set of 10 "Language of Espionage" cards to help the reader sound like a real secret agent.
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Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain |
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Scott Nash |
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 4–Tuff Fluff, a yellow bunny with a rakish black eye patch, is the Chandleresque private eye enlisted to solve the mystery of Duckie's missing brain. He lives in Los Attic, the city of worn-out playthings, and works out of an office where it's always 3:29 a.m. by "the watch on the wall." Dwelling in cardboard cartons, the inhabitants of Los Attic have mismatched eyes and leak stuffing at the seams. They join forces to aid Tuff in his search; without his brain, Duckie can no longer speak, and all of the animals miss his storytelling. In fact, they are so keen to hear the end of his last tale that even the rivalry between the "beanbags" and the "stuffs" is forgotten in the quest. The contrast between Nash's 1930s' gumshoe writing style and the actual plot of toy animals anxiously... |
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