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Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Winnie, Ben, and Spence have just found Mike's compass in the dirt at an old abandoned motel in town. And worse, the empty getaway car from yesterday's bank robbery is sitting in the motel's courtyard. The Last Chance Detectives launch a desperate search for one of their own--but it's a race against time, and the odds are against them. A manhunt . . . the figure of a winged jaguar . . . flames in the desert sky . . . and a trail of clues lead out...
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the edge of a small desert town, where a B-17 sits next to an old diner, a mystery has begun to unfold. At first it was just a strange voice on an old radio. Then there's a robbery at the Ambrosia cultural museum--priceless Aztec relics are stolen. And Ben has an encounter in the desert that can only be described as out-of-this-world. When mystery lights begin to appear in Navajo Mesa, the local sheriff grows strangely silent about it all. But...
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Memories of Mike's dad resurface when a space shuttle mission goes bad and the family of the pilot witness the shocking disaster in the desert skies above Ambrosia. Will Mike ever discover the truth about his dad's plane crash in the Middle East? Why won't God answer his prayers? Soon another mystery unfolds as reports of strange and frightening apparitions filter in from the desert, along with smoky green fog. Could aliens and enemy soldiers both...
6) Hellworld
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Abby's mother, a co-host of a ghost hunting reality show, disappeared with her crew in a "haunted" cave in Arizona. Now Abby plans to go to the same cave and find out what happened there. Charlie, son of the other co-host, gets some friends to accompany them. But what they stumble across in that primordial cave is nothing they could have ever imagined.
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
It travels only at night. It stands three feet taller than the average human. It wields incredible strength. It's been called Sasquatch, Yeti, Orange Eyes, Mud Monster . . . Bigfoot . . . and the people of Ambrosia believe it's only a legend. Until now! Long, coarse strands of animal hair the vet can't identify . . . old Silas's wild story . . . metal doors ripped apart by powerful claws . . . terrorized campers . . . and in the middle of it all,...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 56
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandfather Shortpaws sends Geronimo Stilton on a hunt for his old friend, the Red Bandit, in Arizona.
9) Tacos
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Baby Bear goes on a business trip with Poppa Bear, he worries about being far away from home--from Mama, from his comfy bed, from his yummy food. When Poppa suggests trying tacos for the first time, Baby Bear isn't sure he'll like them. Will he be brave enough to try something new?
10) Domination
Author
Series
(Jon S.).C.H.A.O.S. trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister and his friends are captured and taken back to Gathmara, and unless these partially-trained military cadets of C.H.A.O.S. find a way to stop the lizard-like Thules, Earth's domination is assured.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Author
Series
(Jon S.)C.H.A.O.S. trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister, now in training at the secret Central Headquarters Against the Occult and Supernatural academy, joins in the battle against alien forces and discovers startling truths about himself, his friendship with Oz, and why he is being singled out from his fellow recruits.
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 7
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mike and his friends come across an ancient artifact that could unlock riches beyond their wildest dreams. Those dreams are threatened, however, by an unexpected break-in that has the local sheriff puzzled. When a mysterious stranger shows up in town, Mike, Winnie, Ben, and Spence wonder if they are in more danger than they realized. Their hunt for the treasure becomes a race against time as the Last Chance Detectives come face-to-face with perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike. Determined to buy it back, Gus agrees...
16) Canyon quest
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike Fowler thinks the small desert town of Ambrosia is a dry, forsaken blip on the edge of civilization. He has no friends, no fun, and no answers to the agonizing disappearance of his dad in a top-secret military mission. But that could all change after Mike stumbles onto his dad's puzzling journal in the old B-17 out back. The mysterious entries in the journal lead him to a hidden canyon! Something big--maybe a covert military operation--is going...
Author
Series
Last Chance Detectives volume 6
Publisher
Focus on the Family, published by Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A dangerous highway encounter. A phantom roadster. A thirty-year quest for revenge. Arlene, the sheriff's assistant, is driving home from work one evening when a classic hotrod pulls up alongside her. What did Arlene see that night that has her so frightened? Who was inside the other car, and what about that threatening message the driver left behind? Mike, Winnie, Ben, and Spence--four kids known as the Last Chance Detectives--decide to investigate...
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