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Doubleday Canada
Language
English
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Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve dastardly crimes - but this time she leaves behind her beloved English countryside, and takes her sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools. Sam Mendes, Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, has bought the right to produce five two-hour television movies based on the series.
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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 8
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English
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Beloved amateur detective Flavia de Luce returns with her signature wit and flair, delivering a charming new mystery that will have readers on the edges of their seats like never before.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In the third installment of the bestselling, award-winning, sister-poisoning, bicycle-riding, murder-investigating, mad, merry, and utterly captivating series, Flavia de Luce must clear a woman's name to prevent a grave injustice, while trying to avoid an early (and unjust) grave herself. Print run 20,000.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that her family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp pinned to its beak. Later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. (Bestseller)...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve the most dastardly crimes the English countryside has to offer, and in the process, she comes closer than ever to solving her life's greatest mystery - her mother's disappearance.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects....
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English
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"The spectacular tenth novel starring Flavia de Luce--'the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth' (The Seattle Times)--from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. Flavia de Luce, the twelve-year-old chemist and amateur detective is eager to turn professional. She and her father's valet, Dogger, have founded a detective agency, Arthur Dogger & Associates, and unexpectedly cut into their first case during...
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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 9
Language
English
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In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is...
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