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Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a case of counterfeiting.
3) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
4) Fake
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Language
English
Description
"The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia - from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called "fakes"? Kati Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
7) Rebel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.
8) Contraband
Language
English
Description
A former smuggler takes on one last job dealing in counterfeit money to help save his brother-in-law from drug lords seeking to kill him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
11) Carols and chaos
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Language
English
Description
Kate Darby, a lady's maid, and Matt Harlow, a valet, become entangled in a yuletide counterfeiting scheme at Christmas time, 1817, as they try to stave off their feelings for one another.
13) Deception
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.
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