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Aven Green volume 1
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English
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"Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's her theory.)"--
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English
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2022-2023 Bluebonnet Award Nominees
African American Authors
Black History Month
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
African American Authors
Black History Month
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
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"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
The 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. On May 31 and June 1 an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood,...
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English
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2022-2023 Bluebonnet Award Nominees
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
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Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton—if only she can wrap her...
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