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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The McNeil family has always been professional hoaxers -- tricking bystanders into believing they're seeing legendary creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Unlike the rest of his family, twelve-year-old Grayson hates hoaxing and wants nothing to do with the business -- even when the McNeils land a huge job and must pull off four sea monster hoaxes in a week. But when things go disastrously wrong and Dad and Gramps go missing, Grayson and...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gideon and Ishmael Hofstadt, ages sixteen and seventeen, accidentally start a hoax that aliens have landed, turning their town of Lansburg, Pennsylvania, into a circus. Told through narrative, police interviews, text messages, blog posts, and more." --
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Geronimo is taking his Benjamin on a trip to Rome to learn the city's history (and keep him from failing fifth grade), but when they arrive they are immediately pulled into the investigation of the "ghost" of a gladiator that seems to be haunting the Colosseum and scaring tourists away.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Halloween, Nancy and the Clue Crew visit the television studio of their favorite show and wonder if the studio is haunted because of all of the scary noises and creepy shadows.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be amazed by Goldie's second middle-grade adventure! The Crossed Palms is hosting the first ever League of Magical Arts Convention, bringing the world's most renowned and emerging magicians to the resort, including an overeager part-time magician and detective named Derek Von Thurston. When some of the magic starts to go awry, Goldie -- and Derek -- are on the case! Can Goldie uncover the saboteur before the final act goes live?
Author
Series
Great pet heist volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Butterbean is bored. She and the other pets pulled off a heist once, but that was like a million years ago. Nothing exciting has happened since then. That is, until Mrs. Third Floor shows up at their apartment, convinced there’s a ghost in the building. Mrs. Third Floor’s rental unit is showing signs of paranormal activity—eerie noises, objects moving when no one is there, fish disappearing from the tank overnight. The pets decide to investigate....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 14
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1961]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys investigate a dispute over a mysterious pond and rumors of piracy in Georgia.
10) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jess Morgan is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else. When she discovers her late aunt's diaries, Jess learns she's not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt Anna truly the Romanov princess Anastasia? Or is this some elaborate hoax? As Jess digs into the century-old mystery she discovers another, bigger truth: only you can write your own story. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Given the vastness of the universe, it is not difficult to imagine the possibility of life-—even intelligent life—-beyond Earth. Yet whether any extraterrestrial beings have ever made contact with us and if any evidence of this contact exists, remains widely debated. Evaluating tales of alien encounters and UFO sightings with a critical eye, this absorbing volume considers the possibility of extraterrestrial life by carefully separating scientific...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton reporter volume 5
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sally Ratmousen, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Rat and Geronimo Stilton's biggest journalistic rival, mysteriously disappears one afternoon on the way to her car after work. Her ace reporter, Simon Squealer, shows up at Geronimo's door with the troubling news... and reveals that notorious mobster Barry the Moustache is behind her disappearance. Is he telling Geronimo the truth or is this fake news? If it's a hoax just to generate headlines, Geronimo...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways to tell interesting stories, but how much of it is news ... and how much is just noise? This refreshing and up-to-date media literacy book gives kids the tools they need to distinguish what is fact from what is fiction so that they can make smart choices about what to believe." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Thea Stilton volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting a movie set in Hollywood, the Thea sisters set out in search of a thief who has stolen an important reel of film from the studio.
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