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Hank the Cowdog volume 26
Language
English
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Hank the Cowdog uses all of his sleuthing skills as head of ranch security when a major theft occurs on the ranch and Miss Beulah is kidnapped.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Los Cinco ven cómo secuestran a un niño en la playa y deciden ir a rescatarlo. Pero, ¿adónde se lo han llevado los secuestradores? ¿Podrá Tim guiarlos en la búsqueda?
The Famous Five - Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy - have been delighting readers for over 70 years. After the Five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach, they set out to find him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy? Will Timmy lead them to the answer?
83) The caldera
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Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Hallasholm, Stig is contesting the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia's greatest warrior. But a late-night knock on the door brings someone Stig never expected to see again, along with a request the Herons are hard-pressed to refuse: a rescue mission of epic proportions. Across the ocean, the southern city-state of Byzantos is plagued by a crew of pirates who've kidnapped the son of Empress Justina. Slipping out of Hallasholm under the...
84) The keep of ages
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Series
Vault of dreamers trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Driven by fear when Dean Berg kidnaps her family, Rosie Sinclair strikes out across the country to rescue them. When an elusive trail leads her to Grisly Valley, the contaminated ruin of a horror theme park, Rosie has to consider that Berg may once again be manipulating her every move to make her fearful, priming her for a final, lethal dream mining procedure. As Rosie struggles to outmaneuver Berg, she unearths the ultimate vault of dreamers and...
85) The Special Ones
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Esther is one of the Special Ones: four young spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock, ready to punish them if they forget who they are-and all the while, broadcasting their lives to eager followers on the outside. Esther knows that if she stops being Special, he will “renew” her. Nobody knows what happens to the Special Ones who are taken away from the...
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Series
Bad guys volume 6
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
¡Los Tipos Malos están desapareciendo! Una criatura con MONTONES de dientes y DEMASIADOS traseros los está capturando uno por uno. ¿Será este el fin de los Tipos Malos? ¿Será divertido? ¡Apuesta tu trasero a que lo será!
"The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with TONS of teeth and WAY too many butts is stealing them, one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys?"--
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Series
Elements of genius volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Greg Belmont es un chico al que no le gustan los riesgos, vive contento siendo un joven normal. Greg tiene un amigo -sí, tan solo un amigo- en su divertida escuela y un padre que es de lo más cool (incluso cuando está obsesionado con jabones orgánicos que apestan a una mezcla entre cerdo cocinado y pantano islandés). El problema es que Greg no es un chico normal... él es un enano fantástico!
"Greg Belmont learns he's anything but ordinary...
90) The echo room
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Rett Ward knows how to hide. He's had six years of practice at Walling Home, the state-run boarding school where he learned how to keep his head down to survive. But when Rett wakes up locked in a small depot with no memory of how he got there, he can't hide. Not from the stranger in the next room. Or from the fact that there's someone else's blood on his jumpsuit. Worse, every time he tries to escape, he wakes up right back where he started. Same...
91) Show me a sign
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
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Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
Description
Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
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English
Description
Amy and Dan were devastated when the Vespers kidnapped seven Cahills around the world, holding them hostage until Amy and Dan delivered an impossible ransom. But at least the hostages were Cahills, members of the world's most powerful family, trained to face all odds. Now the Vespers have gone too far. They've kidnapped Atticus, an innocent 11-year-old boy and Dan's only friend. Now Dan and Amy are in the struggle of their lives. Because if they...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Telmund is a prince who loves fables. But when a hasty witch mistakes him for bully in need of paranormal punishment, he's cursed to transform into a new animal every time he falls asleep. With his shape constantly changing, Telmund discovers that actually living in a fairy tale has its drawbacks. Amelia is a practical princess with a wide range of skills, none of which are helpful for escaping the ball her parents have thrown to select her future...
96) Ruthless
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Carver has always competed like her life depends on it. Ambitious. Tough. Maybe even mean. It's no wonder people call her Ruthless. When she wakes up with a concussion in the bed of a moving pickup trick, she realizes she has been entered into a contest she can't afford to lose. At a remote, rotting cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ruth's blindfold comes off and she comes face-to-face with her captor. A man who believes his mission is...
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Mapmakers trilogy volume 1
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English
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In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.
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Series
Blood Guard trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ronan Truelove's best friend: scrappy smart aleck Greta Sustermann, has no idea that she is one of the thirty-six Pure souls crucial to the safety of the world. But Ronan's evil father has figured it out and he's leading the Bend Sinister straight to Greta. If they capture her, she'll suffer a fate far worse than mere death. But to get to Greta, they're going to have to go through Ronan first. Standing with Ronan are plucky hacker Sammy; witty, unkillable...
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Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
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