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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
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"When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he's determined to be there! But the tricky part isn't getting into the library--it's getting out. Because when morning comes, the doors stay locked. Kyle and the other kids must solve every clue and figure out every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route!"--
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
3) Check & mate
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
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Board game shop mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Back in his hometown of Sugar House running his family's board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can't seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he's a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management. At least the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenager--and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"The forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, a cooperative deck-building game, and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game, players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville, each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources. By gaining influence, players...
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STEAM kit includes 1 sheet of game instructions, 2 laminated multiplication charts, and the Flip 4 game. Flip 4 is a strategic math game that helps kids polish simple math skills, with a unique combination of math and strategy. Roll the dice and add, subtract or multiply the numbers to move to particular squares on the board- or to flip an opponent off it! It is easy to learn and challenging to play.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Trash is treasure! In this raucous card game, paw through the deck to find sets of day-old pizza, half-eaten candy, and other luscious leftovers. Roll the die to tip over the garbage or raid a rival's rubbish, if there's no Doggos standing guard. The more you roll, the more actions you can take - but get too greedy and your turn is scrapped! Stash the most trash and you're pick of the litter!
10) Skittle scatter
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Playing Skittle Scatter is simple for players of all ages: toss your baton at the cluster of numbered pins (Skittles) to reach exactly 50 points without going over - Skittle Scatter is a fun mix of skill and luck!
11) Truly devious
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Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she plans to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Celebrate the joy of painting in this game of strategy and serendipity. Earn "chill points" by painting landscape features like Happy Little Trees and Almighty Mountains using colors and brushes from you hand of cards. Keep your eye on what other players are doing and be strategic about the sequence in which you complete the features. If another player beats you to the brush, you may want to wash your palette and shift your painting plan. Or instead,...
13) Coup
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In a future where the government is run for profit, all but a priviledged few live lives of poverty and desperation. The Resistance rises out of these oppressed masses in revolt and throws the government into chaos. Many see hope for a brighter future for the first time in their lives. Others see opportunity for absolute power. To take command, you must destroy the influence of your rivals and drive them into exile. Only one can survive.
15) What's so funny?
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Pub. Date
2007
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Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.
16) Parks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"From the creators of Campy Creatures, Caper, Space Park, and Control comes PARKS! PARKS is a celebration of our National Parks created in partnership with the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek different trails across four seasons. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource...
18) Nine liars
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Series
Truly Devious volume 5
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
19) Snowmen at night
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Series
Snowmen (Caralyn Buehner) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
New for the fall season, this New York Times bestseller is now available in a sturdy board book edition, previously sold only through the gift set. Snowmen at Night reveals a wonderful wintertime secret--when we are sleeping, the snowmen are out playing! This exuberant, rhyming tale continues to delight young toddlers, as well as older readers, in a format that's just right for little hands.
20) Dead voices
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Series
Small spaces quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
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"Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined...