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43) Grandpa's teeth
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Everyone in town is smiling--all the time, whether they want to or not--in an effort to prove that he or she did not play the thief with Grandpa's teeth.
45) Whatshisface
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Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family have moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence....
48) The Calder game
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When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
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"Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson"--OCLC.
50) The crazy clues
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Dot the Diplodocus is puzzled by the strange behavior of her family and friends, but when she investigates she finds a trail of popcorn that leads her to an answer.
51) The Wright 3
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In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
53) Buried secrets
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Nicky Roth has finally proven that his best friend Aaron and Aaron's little sister have gone missing. The police are now involved, but no one is investigating his neighbor; and due to recent events, his friends refuse to help him. Undeterred, and with evidence of Aaron's presence, Nicky decides to go it alone.
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A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through the town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka sixth grader Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm --take on the most important case of Mo's life.
58) The ghost tree
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Asim moves to a new town, and it and its weird noised, creepy lights, and eerie tree that is growing much faster than tree's have any right to grow, are all freaking him out. His new friend Rokshar thinks all this can be explained by science, but even she starts getting spooked when the tree seems to take control of their teacher. Now, Asim and Rokshar must face what might be an evil possessing spirit from Guyanese folklore.