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Author
Series
Girls I've been volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel"--OCLC.
22) The triple hoax
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 57
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and friends Bess and George track a group of swindlers and kidnappers from New York to Mexico City to Los Angeles where they finally solve the mystery of the Triple Hoax.
Author
Series
Vengekeep prophecies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Jaxter Grimjinks is the youngest of the Grimjinx clan, the swiftest and smartest thieves in Vengekeep. However, Jaxter is neither of those things, and in his first heist he gets his whole family into the gaol. Then in Vengekeep there arises a prophecy foretelling the Grimjinx family will be the heroes of the land. The townspeople let the Grimjinx out of the gaol, but into a frying pan of fire, flood, skeletons, and prophetic danger.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly, thirteen-year-old Duncan helps his neighbor, a widow recovering from a stroke, by hiding valuable antiques and art objects her husband had collected, but disaster strikes and the secrets he has been asked to keep may mean big trouble for Duncan.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2020]
Language
English
Description
A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as a sheriff in the Old West, an advisor on the moon, or the friend of a wealthy but shallow trendsetter in a modern version of the classic fairy tale. Includes a history of The Emperor's New Clothes."
28) Skullduggery
Author
Series
Bloodwater mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Sleuth Putnam
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
30) The flimflam man
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1950, a con man comes to Wetumka, Oklahoma, telling about his fabulous circus, and although he swindles the townspeople, two young girls grow from the experience.
Author
Series
Crims volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Addams Family meets Despicable Me in the first book of this new trilogy, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Pseudonymous Bosch!
33) Drift & dagger
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Mal's world, magic is everything. But Mal is a "blank," the anti-magic. Blanks can't be hexed or cursed or saved or killed by magic. And everyone is afraid of them--even Mal himself. So Mal hides what he is--except from Essie Roe, a witch and his best friend. On the day Essie reveals his secret and casts him out from the only home he's ever known, Mal experiences the true shock of betrayal. Now Mal travels the world in search of rare, illegal...
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Super editions volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose head to Florida where they uncover a scam at a local space memorabilia attraction.
35) El Timo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Although what Pa Jinglebob really likes to do is knit, as sheriff of Buckeroo and he must take action when the dastardly Mr. Grabble and his gang try to cheat residents out of their land to build a railroad straight through town.
39) Fallen Grace
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
40) Kepler's Dream
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2013, ♭2012
Language
English
Description
While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library.