Audience: 9 and up
Rating: B
Synopsis:
Hollis Woods is tough. She has to be. She’s been bounced from one family to the next, living in six different houses before she turns 12. Mostly they’ve been awful, but there’s one family she loved and would have loved to belong to. Hollis tries not [...]

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Audience: Elementary and up
Rating: B-
Synopsis:
Donald Zinkoff is not the typical kid. He loves school, but he’s not that good at it. He wants to be a mailman so that he can deliver mail in sleet and snow. He giggles a bit too much, has a lucky piece of bubble gum, [...]

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Alex Rider Adventure: Book 3
Audience: 9 and up

Rating: B-
Synopsis:
The third book in the Alex Rider series is fast-paced and action packed with lots of subplots and adventure. Alex starts by investigating a mysterious break-in at Wimbleton and ends up in the United states, next Cuba, and then in Russia. Along the [...]

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