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1) Hoops
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Bedford Library: 2024-2025 MCBA Nominees
Cary Library's Best Books of 2023 - For Children
Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominees 2024-2025 (4th-6th Grade)
New England Book Awards
Cary Library's Best Books of 2023 - For Children
Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominees 2024-2025 (4th-6th Grade)
New England Book Awards
Description
"A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver them to away games...
5) The FBI
Author
Language
English
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Description
This title explores the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), its history, and its role in today's fast-moving world of law enforcement. Readers will learn how this federal agency, as the main investigative force of the United State government, makes sure that laws are obeyed and crimes are prevented. Areas explored will include how agents are selected and trained, how the FBI investigates terrorism, and how it gathers intelligence and collects evidence...
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Series
Lemonade war series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 2
Language
English
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com.
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
15) Police force
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Who is brave enough to stand up against criminals who break the law? Imagine facing an armed robber alone and without backup. Police officers find themselves in these kinds of situations all the time. It is their job to maintain law and order on the streets and keep the peace in communities"--p. [4] of cover.
16) Scar Island
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Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
18) Organized Crime
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Series
Language
English
Description
The word "Mafia" is used to describe a secret criminal society. Today, organized crime groups such as the
Italian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, and Chinese Triads commit crimes around the world. Find out more in
Organized Crime, one of the titles in The Hidden World of Crime series.
19) Law Enforcement
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Series
Language
English
Description
The very first police in what is now the United States were Native American warriors who kept order
during hunts. Today, American law enforcement includes the Texas Rangers, Secret Service, and U.S.
Marshals Service, among many others. Find out more in Law Enforcement, one of the titles in The Hidden
World of Crime series. T
20) Heists
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The word heist comes from the word "hoist." This is because a group of thieves try to "hoist" a large
amount of money during a heist. Find out more in Heists, one of the titles in The Hidden World of Crime
series.
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