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Adventure stories African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Child detectives Juvenile fiction Schools Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Juvenile fiction Washington (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Fiction Washington (D.C.) Juvenile fictionLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASMarciano, John Bemelmans.
Summary: Madeline and the other orphans of the vine-covered house in Paris spend Easter at the White House visiting with the President's daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MARTrueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD TRUWaters, Charles
Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WATPatterson, James
Summary: "In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATRoy, Ron
Summary: When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit Washington, D.C., just before Christmas, they are inadvertently caught up in a kidnapping plot that was intended for the president's dog, but also involves the president's stepdaughter and her friend Marshall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AZSE 3James, Anna. (Anna Lois)
Summary: The bookwandering community is at risk when an extreme group of Librarians take over the British Underlibrary. Tilly and Oskar believe that an elusive group of bookwanderers called the Archivists may be the key to restoring balance and Tilly thinks she s discovered their whereabouts: the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMPatterson, James
Summary: "Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: "Alex Cross. The brilliant DC detective who never gives up on a case. Ali Cross. The tenacious kid who's determined to follow in his father's footsteps. The case that finally gives him a chance. Ali knows Gabe Qualls better than anyone, so when his friend goes missing, Ali jumps right into action. Being Alex Cross's son has taught him the skills he needs to solve the mystery: intelligence,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director of the FBI keeps texting you for help ... What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country? If you're Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both. Florian is twelve years old and has just moved to Washington. He's learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. It's a technique he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: When she seizes a piece of an ancient wand from the Servants of Evil, Wonder Woman discovers that it is infused with dark magic, and during her quest for the remaining pieces she realizes that the wand belongs to the evil Circe, who must be the Servants mysterious master--but when she brings the pieces to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., she discovers that some of the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SNIKeene, Carolyn
Summary: "Nancy investigates her father's disappearance in Washington, D.C. in the twenty-second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEPonti, James
Summary: In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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Summary: When doctored photographs of the President of the United States appear after an innocent Halloween party, his stepdaughter KC and her friend Marshall have to find the culprit in order to save the President's chances for re-election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CM 10Smith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIRoy, Ron
Summary: As they leave a Fourth of July celebration with the President of the United States, KC and Marshall see unauthorized fireworks at the FBI Building and decide to unmask the culprit and his plans for blackmail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CM 6Woon, Yvonne
Summary: "At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong--buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOMarney, Ellie
Summary: Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC to work as an codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other girl codebreakers to find the man killing Government girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARBarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BARCharaipotra, Sona
Summary: At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHASmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C, and is looking forward to earning extra credit by building a diorama of a tiger in his natural habitat for extra credit--but before she can even begin her task she has to solve themystery of her younger sister's favorite missing stuffed animal because her parents and older sister are too busy and Tiana is ready to throw a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIBarry, Dave
Summary: When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend Matt's decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists--and it's up to the boys to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2015