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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.
Seeing things -- Problem parents -- A waiting game -- Udder chaos.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A sharply written adventure/mystery debut." -Kirkus Reviews
Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess/counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and possibly putting the country's future at risk?
Buchanan-Dineen was a real-life figure who led a German spy ring operating in Detroit during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. Morgan le Fay will make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if only they can solve four riddles -- which will take four books, of course! Dolphins at Daybreak begins the third set of four books in this magical (and increasingly popular) series! Jack and Annie are off in the Magic...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sultan's daughter who loves numbers and riddles devises a plan to find the man who is best suited to be her husband.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
173 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
©2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume unnumbered : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When students in Mr. Tiffin's class are invited to solve a riddle during a field trip to an apple orchard, it is Tara's daydreams that may lead to the answer.
Author
Series
Rowan of Rin volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Destiny leads Rowan of Rin to make choices which could save a powerful crystal, thereby ensuring the safety of his people and his people's shore-dwelling allies.
Author
Series
Rowan of Rin volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
198 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a flying lizard carries off his little sister, Rowan of Rin and three companions are guided by a rhyming riddle on a journey to the land of their old enemy, the Zebak, in order to rescue her.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working on a school science project in the forest, Andres and Desmond discover a bridge guarded by a lonely, riddle-loving troll.
11) Fear itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
204 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
150 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After finding a mysterious key, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds herself in the wintery world of Sylver where all the inhabitants were once either beloved pets or tamed wild animals, and must find the missing Winter Prince before she can return home"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 9
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.
16) Dead ends
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure.
Author
Series
Incarnations of immortality volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Niobe's only chance of revenging her lover's murder is to solve a maze of riddles devised by Satan. But since her strength is beauty, not intelligence, the question becomes whether her failure has already been woven into the Tapestry of Fate.
18) The Riddle
Author
Series
Pellinor volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xvii, 490 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The further translation of a manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah which chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, a gifted Bard, as she seeks the answer to the Riddle of the Treesong and continues to battle the Dark forces.
20) Silly Milly
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) of print and braille : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Invites the reader to solve the riddle of why Silly Milly likes certain things and dislikes others.
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