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Books with highly interesting subject matter at a low reading level from BC.
Leggings Revolt

Leggings Revolt

by Monique Polak
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : school & education, non-classifiable, activism & social justice

Eric and his buddies have left behind their all boys school to attend high school with girls.

Eager to find his place in this exciting new world, Eric joins the student life committee, unaware that he is expected to enforce the school’s strict dress code. The dress code is particularly harsh on the girls he is keen to get to know. Eric finds this awkward, but it’s nothing compared to the position he finds himself in when the whole school revolts.

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Lost

Lost

by John Wilson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook Paperback
tagged : exploration & discovery, polar regions, mysteries & detective stories

Sam and Annabel are pleased when they are selected to take a cruise to the Arctic. And they are thrilled when they learn that the cruise will take them past a site connected to the most famous mystery in Arctic history: the Franklin Expedition. But things on the cruise are not what they seem. When Sam and Annabel make a startling discovery on a small island close to where archaeologists are diving on the wreck of the Erebus, one of the Franklin’s ships, they are confronted by an old enemy. Iso …

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Lost

Lost

by John Wilson
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : exploration & discovery, polar regions, non-classifiable

Sam and Annabel are pleased when they are selected to take a cruise to the Arctic.

They are thrilled when they learn that the cruise will take them past a site connected to the most famous mystery in Arctic history: the Franklin Expedition. But things on the cruise are not what they seem. When Sam and Annabel make a startling discovery on a small island close to where archaeologists are diving on the wreck of the Erebus, one of the Franklin’s ships, they are confronted by an old enemy. Isolated …

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Beethoven's Tenth

Beethoven's Tenth

A Frank Ryan Mystery
by Brian Harvey
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : crime, amateur sleuth

Piano tuner Frank Ryan is paid in kind by an aging music teacher with an old manuscript that turns out to be Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony.

Launched into a world of intrigue and violence, Ryan, an unlikely sleuth, realizes he must use his wits to conquer his enemies and solve the mystery of the manuscript. In the process Ryan discovers whom he can trust and what he is made of. The first in a series featuring Frank Ryan, Beethoven’s Tenth is a smart page-turner.

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Beethoven's Tenth

Beethoven's Tenth

A Frank Ryan Mystery
by Brian Harvey
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : crime, amateur sleuth

Piano tuner Frank Ryan is paid in kind by an aging music teacher with an old manuscript that turns out to be Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony.

Launched into a world of intrigue and violence, Ryan, an unlikely sleuth, realizes he must use his wits to conquer his enemies and solve the mystery of the manuscript. In the process Ryan discovers whom he can trust and what he is made of. The first in a series featuring Frank Ryan, Beethoven’s Tenth is a smart page-turner.

This short novel is a high-interest …

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The Blue Dragon

The Blue Dragon

A Peter Strand Mystery
by Ronald Tierney
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : private investigators, crime, asian american

A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn’t exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn’t intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn’t a gang-related killing, as the police believe. The …

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The Blue Dragon

The Blue Dragon

A Peter Strand Mystery
by Ronald Tierney
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : private investigators, asian american, crime

A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants.

But Strand isn’t exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn’t intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn’t a gang-related killing, as the police believe. The …

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The Boardwalk

The Boardwalk

A Gulliver Dowd Mystery
by Reed Farrel Coleman
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : private investigators, police procedural, crime

Gulliver Dowd is finally on the verge of unraveling the mystery behind his sister's murder when the man who is supposed to give him the scoop, NYPD Detective Sam Patrick, is gunned down on the Coney Island Boardwalk. As Dowd delves into Patrick's accidental shooting, he uncovers a pattern of corruption and deceit involving organized crime and the police. But there are tough choices to be made. Just how much is Gulliver willing to sacrifice in order to find out why his sister was murdered and to …

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