C. J. Critt
1) Motor mouth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First, there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's convinced one of the competitors is up...
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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While working for her bail bondsman cousin, Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself hot on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who seems to be leaving a wide swath of murder and mayhem wherever she goes.
3) To the nines
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the next target of a crazed killer while trying to locate Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant who has skipped out on a visa bond guaranteed by Plum's boss and cousin Vinnie.
4) The cookcamp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Pursuing Kenny Mancuso, who fled after inadvertently shooting his best friend, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes involved in an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons and is pursued by vice cop Joe Morelli.
6) Hot six
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos. Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio...
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance. And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking like glue. Lula's big...
8) High five
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Find out why Stephanie Plum's racy, in-your-face New Jersey adventures are attracting a growing number of fans. Join America's favorite bounty hunter as she scrambles to make an honest living, keep her family happy, and find true love. Desperate for money, Stephanie is trying to apprehend a surly "little person" when a call from her mother pulls her back to the Burg. Seventy-two-year-old Uncle Fred is missing, and the family is counting on Stephanie...
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A New Jersey bounty hunter with attitude, bail-bonds apprehension agent Stephanie Plum pursues a former vice cop, now on the run, with whom she shares a sordid history and a powerful chemistry.
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HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Buckle up for a wild ride involving a missing gerbil, a crazy cat, and a tattooed baby that will have readers of all ages laughing!
This hilarious novel stars the Herdmans, the worst kids in the world, who made their first appearance in author Barbara Robinson's classic The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
In The Best School Year Ever, Imogene, Claude, Ralph, Leroy, Ollie, and Gladys Herdman haven't changed a bit. They
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Christmas in Twilight, Texas, is all merriment and mistletoe. The Cookie Club is whipping up their most festive sweets, the townspeople are scrambling to get their holiday shopping done, and Joe-a hometown guy with a restless heart-is dreaming about the woman he wants to kiss most… And who happens to be staying at his sister's place over the holidays, while Joe's sister is away. But Joe isn't quite sure he wants to be a living Christmas present...
13) The bean trees
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new...
14) Outer banks
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig-they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship-they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weather-beaten...
15) A thousand acres
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance...
16) Devil's claw
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English
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Sheriff Joanna Brady is about to be married and is dealing with her preteen daughter, meddlesome mother, and new in-laws. The sudden death of her dear friend Clayton Rhodes creates further turmoil and makes Joanna the target of Clayton's irate daughter, who makes accusations of a murder cover-up.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Alice Goodwin begins the unremarkable June day much as every other on the small dairy farm. Suddenly, within the span of minutes, Alice's map of her world is forever altered when her neighbor's two-year-old-left with Alice for the morning-wanders away and drowns in the farm pond. In the style of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller, award-winning author Hamilton composes an emotionally charged story of guilt, atonement and love that immerses...
18) Pigs in heaven
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee...