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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes...
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Series
Classic diner novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When a man dies after eating a piece of cake from the Charming Moose Diner, Victoria and her grandfather must find out who poisoned their dessert.
Author
Series
Classic diner novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Moose and Victoria attempt to solve the mystery after Barry Jackson's bakery is burned to the ground, with the baker still inside.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
6) Bag of bones
Author
Language
English
Description
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
Author
Publisher
[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Johnny "JT" Tower is a sports legend in the small town of North Woodbury, South Dakota, still living in a trailer next to the tavern his parents owned before retiring to California. After receiving an invitation to his 25 year high school reunion, JT embarks on a trail of self-discovery, enlisting his parents, grandfather Eldon, and Coach Blodough to help him prepare to see Iris, the love of his life who disappeared after graduation.
13) Mowing
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Nora helps her grandfather mow the field by watching for little animals in the tall grass and warning him to circle the horses and mowing machine around them.
14) Capture the flag
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Space travel runs in Mike Goldwing's family: both his father and grandfather were astronauts. But the twelve-year-old's estranged grandfather, Frank, has lived a life isolated after missing out on the chance to make history as a member of the Apollo XI crew. When Mike discovers that an eccentric billionaire plans to fly to the moon, claim its vast, valuable mineral resources, and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo XI astronauts, the countdown...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.