Nancy Wu
1) Math curse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
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Peasprout Chen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Welcome to Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, where the blades are sharp and the competition is fierce. Peasprout Chen dreams of becoming a legend of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful art of martial arts figure skating. As the first students from the rural country of Shin to attend Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout and her little brother Cricket have some pretty big skates to fill. They soon find themselves in a heated competition...
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Now in her second year at Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout Chen strives to reclaim her place as a champion of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful sport of martial arts figure skating. But Peasprout faces a surprising threat: Yinmei, the exiled heir to the Shinian throne and the newest student at the Academy. As Yinmei excels both academically and socially, Peasprout begins to suspect that she is not a refugee at all, but a spy. To keep...
4) Severance
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2018.
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English
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A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader. -- NoveList
Maybe its the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Mas offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace...
5) Warcross
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Warcross volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire"--
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Flame in the mist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko is targeted by bandits who wish to stop her arranged marriage, a situation that compels her to infiltrate the gang, disguised as a boy, to track down the person responsible for the target on her back.
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place--she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always...
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2021.
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English
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Called to help investigate the murder of a young woman who had recently given birth on the mountain, Mattie and her team search for the missing baby while going up against a criminal mastermind who is behind several murders, including her father’s.
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Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex. An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb and Cole Walker reeling into the night, where they discover a burning van and beside it the body of outfitter Nate Fletcher. But the explosion didn't kill Nate--it was two gunshots to the heart. The investigation leads them...
10) Burning ridge
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2018.
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English
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When Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, are called in to investigate a charred body, they quickly realize that the killer is targeting Mattie.
11) Hunting hour
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2017.
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English
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Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9 partner Robo get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead on Smokers Hill behind the high school, and Mattie must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. But thats only the start of trouble in Timber Creek, because soon another girl goes missingand this time its one of Coles...
12) Hanging Falls
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2020.
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English
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Murder stalks the rugged Colorado high country--and sends Mattie Cobb on a quest to uncover the darkest secrets from her past in the sixth gripping installment of Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mysteries A deluge has flooded the high ground near Hanging Falls--but heavy rains aren't the only menace descending on Timber Creek. While on a scouting mission to pinpoint trail damage, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo stumble upon a body...
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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snow storm is brewing over the high country. And they're already too late. By the time they find her body, the storm has broken and the snow is coming down hard. While Brody hikes down to bring back the forensics team and veterinarian Cole Walker gathers supplies to protect...
16) Killing Trail
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An RT Book Review “Top Pick” and “Best First Mystery" nominee
A Library Journal “Debut of the Month”
Fans of K-9 mysteries and C.J. Box will love this debut police procedural that introduces Colorado’s best crime-fighting duo: Mattie Cobb and police dog, Robo.
While investigating the mysterious death of a young girl, Officer Mattie Cobb uncovers...
A Library Journal “Debut of the Month”
Fans of K-9 mysteries and C.J. Box will love this debut police procedural that introduces Colorado’s best crime-fighting duo: Mattie Cobb and police dog, Robo.
While investigating the mysterious death of a young girl, Officer Mattie Cobb uncovers...
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"The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious...
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2022.
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"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace--a company that manufactures cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups--because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms. Shibata...
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Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The epic, canât-miss follow-up to the instant New York Times bestselling Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshiânow in paperback!
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Kyoshiâs place as the true Avatar has finally been cementedâbut at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi struggles to keep the peace in a world full of corruption and violence. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.