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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that long-time office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...
2) Half magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When ordinary third-grader Ed finds a coin with the words "strange" and "stranger" on both sides, weird things start happening around him--but when his friends start blaming him for all the weirdness Ed wonders if this coin is not too strange for comfort.
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looniverse #2 is even wackier than the first book!
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted....
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these events and to hold the key to the future. Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter is experiencing...
Author
Series
Malcolm at midnight volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a rare coin and a strange code are uncovered in McKenna School, Malcolm and the other classroom pets of the Midnight Academy take on their most challenging assignment yet and, through their investigations, they just might save the school from closing.
10) Pennies
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A child needs one more penny to make a nickel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ed, his friends, and even his little sister are eager to go to Dinosaur Discovery, but ever since he found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things happen around Ed--so he is not surprised to find that a blue dinosaur has followed his sister home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While Jake continues searching for his father and is sent by the obsidian mirror to multiple times in the past, Sarah and Venn battle with Summer for control of a powerful coin.
13) A penny's worth
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pennies, worthless? Non-cents! Hot off the minting press, Penny feels like a million bucks. But as other coins and bills are spent while she sits forgotten, she begins to doubt her value. She is too small to slot-surf with Quarter. Even penny candy sells for a dime! Refusing to be short-changed, she sets out to find her purpose at any cost. Readers will laugh at a wealth of money puns, learn a basic lesson on US currency, and discover that self-worth...
Author
Series
Devlin Quick mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Martha's Vineyard, twelve-year-old Devlin Quick discovers a genuine pirate doubloon and investigates its origins.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Griffin Penshine has always believed wishes can come true, and so when a strange woman curses her with a box of pennies, Griffin fears her evil desires will come true until she returns each penny to the person who first wished upon it.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ronald 'Cheesie' Mack relates events he and his best friend, Georgie, experience as fifth grade comes to an end and their summer plans are drastically changed, due in part to an old, possibly valuable coin that may belong to the mysterious inhabitants of a place they call The Haunted Toad."--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Gill Park mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Aiden is very unhappy when, after her father's death, her mother moves them from the family farm, but soon she and new friends are caught up in the search for long-lost coins in the historic Ingle building that towers over the city of Gloria.
20) Deception
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.