Katie Wood
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Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
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It is Shyanna's long-awaited, all-important thirteenth birthday, but nothing is going right--and when Cora's baby sister Jewel gets trapped in a fishing net, Shyanna is the only one small enough to get inside the net and rescue her at the risk of being turned into a human forever.
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The G.H.O.S.T. Squad's school is having its annual carnival, but something isn't right this year. Something creepy is lurking in the funhouse. Guests are spooked and refusing to come to the carnival. If Mags, Scarlett, and Luna can't solve the case in time, their school won't be able to raise the money it badly needs. The problem is, how do you get a ghost to move on if they don't want to leave?
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Gina loves playing soccer, and she can't wait to join the team at her new school. But when Gina tries to be the star of the team, her new teammates don't exactly appreciate it. Gina has to learn that teamwork is more important than winning before she can get back on the field.
9) Rebound time
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Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.
10) Rachel's secret
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Rachel is new to the Kingdom of Neptunia, and she has two secrets--she is half human which only her friend Shyanna knows, and her boy friend is a human boy, Owen, who does not know know she is a mermaid.
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Tabitha has been volunteering with her best friend Rachael at the Rocky Ridge Riding Center for three months, but she keeps getting in trouble because of her lack of focus--can working with the troubled horse, Diamond, help her to save both of them for the Riding Center?
12) Cora's mystery
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Cora and her friends are on the relay team for the upcoming swim meet, but before they can race the team mascot goes missing. Cora thinks the missing mascot is causing her bad luck, so she needs to find it before the race begins.
13) Running scared
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Best friends Olivia and Jessica are good runners, but Olivia is uncomfortable with competition, so when her friend talks her into joining the track team and Olivia is assigned to a long distance race, she is suddenly overcome by a fear of failure.
15) Cora's decision
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The Spirit Squads that represent the different castles are an important part of the Kingdom of Neptunia, and Cora and Shyanna are delighted to be chosen--but their friend Rachel was left out, and when Cora finds out why, she is forced to make a big decision.
16) Rachel's worry
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Rachel is worried that she has done something to upset her human boyfriend, Owen, because lately he has not come to visit her in Neptunia--but it turns out that the truth could put an end to their relationship completely.
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Mags, Scarlett, and Luna of Girls Hunting Oddities & Supernatural Things (G.H.O.S.T.) investigate odd activity at a New Orleans museum that begins when a famous romance writer's jewelry box collection goes on display. They discover the paranormal activity points to the location of the writer's last manuscript. Includes back matter on paranormal studies, the location of a real haunted house, an author interview, a comprehension quiz, and further reading....
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The girls (and dog) of G.H.O.S.T. Squad are asked by a bride to investigate a haunted church, where a spirit has supposedly been playing the church's organ, messing with tapestries, and scaring churchgoers. The girls have to figure out why the ghost is haunting the church and help it move on in time for their client's wedding. Includes information about paranormal researchers, a "real" haunted cathedral, and reading comprehension questions.
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Siblings Fiona and Finley, who help at their family bakery, the Sweets Shop, travel back in time Baltimore in 1818 to learn more about Frederick Douglas, an early proponent of the Civil Rights movement. Includes a biography, comprehension questions, a writing prompt, and Internet links.
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Siblings Fiona and Finley, who help at their family bakery, the Sweets Shop, travel back in time to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with Daisy Bates where they learn about segregation. Includes a biography, comprehension questions, a writing prompt, and Internet links.