The Pearl

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780241952467

Collation

90p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 STE T

White Serpent Castle

There was once a castle shaped like a writhing serpent and reputed to be haunted. According to legend, the daughter of a former lord of the region had thrown herself into the castle moat and changed into a monstrous serpent. This exciting mystery follows Zenta and Matsuzo, two unemployed samurai warriors, or ronin, who arrive at the castle to uncover a web of intrigue, jealousy, and murder. Thi…

Raven Hill Mysteries

When Liz and her friends begin helping out around the neighborhood, all they want to do is earn a little extra pocket change. Nobody said anything about risking their weekends-and their lives-on some of Raven Hill's most mysterious secrets. But trouble has a funny way of sneaking up on Liz, Tom, Sunny, Elmo, Richelle, and Nick...

Beautiful Darkness

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of power…

The Westing Game

For over twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. It has sold over one and a half million copies. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires—it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving b…

Mr. Popper's Penguin

A classic of American humor, the adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins have delighted children for generations. "Here is a book to read aloud in groups of all ages. There is not an extra or misplaced word in the whole story."--"The Horn Book." Newbery Honor Book.

Holes

As an elementary school librarian, I have been disappointed with many of the recent Newbery Medal winning books, mainly because it seemed like adults were selecting books that they thought young people SHOULD read. Many recent Newbery winning books just sit on our shelves.Therefore, when I added "Holes" to our collection, simply because it had received the medal, I expected to see yet another t…

The Dragon of Lonely Island

Grade 3-6-Because their mother needs a quiet place to finish her novel, the three Davis children find themselves spending the summer in a Victorian house on a small island off the coast of Maine. A mysterious letter from their elderly Great Aunt Mehitabel, absentee owner of Lonely Island, helps the siblings discover Fafnyr Goldenwings, a three-headed dragon that sleeps deep inside a cave on Dra…

The Best School Year Ever

The Herdmans are the most famous kids at Woodrow Wilson School. In fact, they are the most famous kids in the whole town-and they are worst kids in the history of the world.

The Westing Game

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger-and a possible murdered- to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure : Sam Westing may be dead... but that won't stop him from playeing one last game!