Detective Stories

All For One

Posted on October 4, 2013 by webmaster

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All For one - Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

All for One is the first book of The Smith Brothers series: MEET THE SMITH BROTHERS.
Storyline:

Four Brothers, all adopted, and all in the family business. They decided to open up a detective agency. Will they be able to solve their first case? Can they do it without killing each other? And why do they buy so much air freshener?
Details:

Published: 2009. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 8,100 words. ISBN: 978-1-935366-12-6. All books are Lexile 1 & 2.

Billionaire’s Curse

Posted on September 23, 2013 by webmaster

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The Billionaire’s Curse
by Richard Newsome

Gerald Wilkins is an Australian youth who’s the recent heir to a fortune bequeathed to him by an English aunt he barely knew. While Gerald’s giddy, irresponsible parents use his good fortune to take a Caribbean vacation, the 12-year-old stays behind in London, facing threats connected to the recent theft of a world-renowned diamond.

His attempts to piece together how his aunt’s death and the diamond are connected involves sleuthing about museums and stuffy clubs, and leads to a dastardly attempt on his life by a creepy man of overwhelming strength who smells of bleach. Luckily, twins Ruby and Sam intervene, saving the new billionaire, and the threesome become fast friends.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
690	High School	352	Adventure	2010	0061944904

When in Rome

Posted on September 21, 2013 by webmaster

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When in Rome – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

WHEN IN ROME is the second book of The Smith Brothers series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 8,400 words. ISBN: 978-1-935366-13-3. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

The guys are headed to Rome. (Rome, NY, not Rome, Italy.) Find out what happens in the car. Find out what happens in the hotel. Find out what happens in Rome. Find out if Rome survives.

Stolen

Posted on September 21, 2013 by webmaster

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Stolen – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

STOLEN is the third book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 11,600 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-2-0. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

The VIN numbers are scratched off a car. Why? Where did this car come from? Was it stolen? Dan needs to find out before he can sell it!

Start of a New Dan

Posted on September 21, 2013 by webmaster

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Start of a New Dan – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

START OF A NEW DAN is the first book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 10,500 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-0-6. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

Dan Corbett was a powerful man. He had it all. Money. Power. Respect. Big house. Nice cars. Beautiful wife. But then Dan got the note. And at that moment, the reason for Dan’s entire life was gone. So Dan leaves it all. Just walks away. Becomes a new Dan. Living a nice, peaceful life. A simple life. Or so he thought.

Money for Nothing

Posted on September 21, 2013 by webmaster

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Money for Nothing – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:
MONEY FOR NOTHING is the sixth book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 10,400 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-5-1. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

Bubba finds a bag of money in the back seat! Whose money is it? And why didn’t they know it was missing?

Dried Blood

Posted on September 20, 2013 by webmaster

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Dried Blood – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:
This is the second book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). This book contains approximately 10,500 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-1-3. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

A customer returns blood-covered parts. Could it mean murder? Dan needs to find out!

So Yesterday

Posted on September 16, 2013 by webmaster

So Yesterday
by Scott Westerfield

What if it was your job to say what was cool? What if clothes and electronics companies gave you cash for your opinion, and lots of free stuff on top of it? You wouldn’t complain about that, would you?

Hunter Braque is a professional cool-hunter. No ads go on TV without his approval, no new shoes hit the stores unless he’s down with them. It’s a pretty sweet deal, until he meets Jen –a rare Innovator, one of the people who actually creates cool at street-level. Real cool, not the corporate kind. Suddenly, strange things start to happen.

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First Hunter’s boss Mandy disappears. When he enlists Jen to help find her, the two begin to uncover a plot to end consumerism as we know it! Will the world change forever, or can Hunter save the sacred bond between brands and buyers? Does he even want to?

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
770	Middle School	240	Thriller/Suspense	2004	159514000X

Chasing the Falconers

Posted on September 15, 2013 by webmaster

Chasing the Falconers
by Gordon Korman

After their parents’ conviction for treason in a high-profile case, Aiden and Meg Falconer were given a different last name and placed at Sunnydale Farm, a juvenile corrections facility in Nebraska. Still, they remain convinced of their parents’ innocence. At the first opportunity, they escape and make their way across the country toward the family’s summer cottage in Vermont.

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With little chance of evading detection, the children do whatever it takes (lying, breaking and entering, hopping a freight train) to remain free and gather evidence that might overturn their parents’ conviction.

The children finally arrive at their family’s cottage. There, the young fugitives learn that they now have two pursuers: the police and a mysterious man who wants to kill them.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
680L	Middle School	154	Adventure	2005	0439651360

Counterfeit Son

Posted on September 14, 2013 by webmaster

Counterfeit Son
by Elaine Marie Alphin

Cameron Miller’s father was a serial killer who preyed on young boys; when he dies in a police shoot-out, Cameron takes on the identity of Neil Lacey, one of his father’s victims who was abducted and supposedly murdered six years earlier. The Lacey family accepts “Neil” into their home with few questions, but he lives in fear that old dental records and a suspicious police officer will expose his lies. Finally, when someone from Cameron’s past threatens his new family, the 14-year-old must decide whether to tell his “parents” the truth.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
830L	Middle School	180	Thriller/Suspense	2000	0152026452

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