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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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The residents of Pickax eagerly await the start of Pickax Now, a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding. In the midst of preparations for parades and performances, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must make time to entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect visiting from out of town. Qwill welcomes Harvey into his home to sketch, but strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Why, for example, did the extraordinary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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James Qwilleran and his talented team of feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the supposedly accidental death of a cast member in a car crash on the eve of the Theatre Club's performance of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Times are changing in Pickax, and it all makes for some newsworthy notes for the "Qwill Pen." A new senior center is in the works, and a frisky production of Cats is set to delight Moose County residents, human and feline alike. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, momentarily leaving Qwill without a companion for his apple-barn concerts, and The Librarians Who Lunch are getting ready to put on a show of their spectacular Art Hats to help unite Pickax with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called for help, but Jim Qwilleran didn't get there in time. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death--but by what or whom? Qwill moves in with Koko and Yum Yum, and they all put noses to the trail...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"A bombed-out hotel opens with a whole new look. One of the hotel's first guests, a jeweler is murdered. Qwilleran and his Siamese are willing to find the killer, But first they'll have to contend with a hijacked bookmobile, an attemped bank robbery . . . and a few of the cats' preoccupations".
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Qwill, inheritor of the great Klingenschoen fortune, is living in a mansion in Moose County. With a staff of three and a limousine, he is at a loss as to how to cope with it all. To make matters worse, Koko has become fond of knocking Qwill's pigskin edition of Hamlet to the floor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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"Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life. With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a long-time family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight. Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then,...
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