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1) 13 gifts
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Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
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"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, eve as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...
4) Perfect game
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Now playing on different teams, twelve-year-old cousins--and best friends--Carter and Liam must compete against each other at the Little League World Series.
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During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
6) Mary McScary
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Mary McScary loves to scare people, but nothing she thinks up seems to bother her cousin, Harry McScary--but Mary will not give up trying.
8) Olu & Greta
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Two cousins--one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Milan, Italy--have different lives, but they share a dream of meeting and being together.
9) Lucky Luna
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Fifth grader Luna Ramos has a great many cousins, mostly on her father's side, but one of them, Claudia, is a source of constant annoyance; their current feud begins when Luna is punished for locking Claudia in the restroom at another cousin's quinceanera--but when there's a bullying situation at school, Luna realizes that, despite their disagreements, cousins have to stand up for each other.
10) What a hat!
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Henry makes fun of his cousin Newton for always wearing his hat, but the hat comes in handy for Henry's sister Wizzie.
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"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
13) Summer trouble
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Tom's American cousin Ben comes to visit him in England, but Tom and his best friend Jeyram ignore him until Ben confronts the school bully and then they become friends.
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Cousins Ginger and Chrysanthemum are best friends, but complete opposites. Ginger likes to leap into action while Chrysanthemum is very organized and likes to plan. When they work together to plan their grandmother's birthday party, things don't go well when they try to bake the cake. But when they work together, they learn that friendship can be stronger than their differences.
15) Party queen
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May seems to be the month for birthday parties, and Kylie Jean is scheduled for so many sleepovers that she is starting to miss her family--but her own birthday is coming up, and the best present may be a new baby cousin.
17) World Series
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Liam and Carter, best friends and cousins, face off against each other for the Little League Baseball World Series title.
18) Field of screams
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Darius and his best friend and cousin, Ryan, are excited to visit Scarecrow Farm, a haunted corn maze that the boys love going to every year. But when they go to Scarecrow Farm this year, it looks run-down and Darius can't get rid of the feeling that they shouldn't be there. When Darius and Ryan get lost in the maze and discover that some of the frights are real, they'll have to try to escape before they become the newest victims of the maze.
20) State show-down
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At the Sectionals competition, Carter Jones, his cousin Liam McGrath, Ash LaBrie, and the Forest Park All-Star little league team must work through jealousy and grudges in order to continue on in their post-season journey.