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Nine-year-old Garnet, who is actually almost 10, is sure she's found something magical when she spots a thimble in a dried-up river bed. Her feelings are confirmed when, a few hours later, it begins to rain thus bringing an end to a drought which had been threatening her family's farm. Now feeling very lucky, Garnet spends the rest of the summer having adventures with her best friend Citronella, visiting town without adult accompaniment, and preparing her pig for an appearance at the upcoming County Fair. Winner of the 1939 Newbery Medal.
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Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso freely admits that she spent her youth idolizing girl detective Nancy Drew, a fantasy that undoubtedly influenced her grown-up job writing biographies of dead mystery writers. But as Cece will discover driving down the highway in her Jackie O. sunglasses and a borrowed baby-blue Cadillac, some fantasies die harder than others.Researching the life of Carolyn Keene, the pseudonymous author of the Nancy Drew mysteries, Cece meets a flamboyant collector of Blue Nancys, the original books with blue covers. When he finds out that she is taking a road trip to Palm Springs to snoop around at the annual Nancy Drew fan convention, he offers her the use of his swanky vacation house. But the last thing Cece expects to find lying around the swimming pool is one very dead body.In a race against time that takes her from a secret enclave of restored Victorians near downtown L.A. to the driest stretches of California desert, Cece will have to channel her former idol and then some to unmask a sly killer -- before he comes after her. Of course, it helps to have a knockout collection of vintage clothing, though Cece prefers Azzedine Alaïa semigloss knits and Halston silver sequined berets to Nancy's prim suits and gloves.Filled with wit, energy, and clever twists, not to mention one smart, hip heroine,Not a Girl Detective is pure entertainment.
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The Boston Red Sox think they have finally found their savior when they sign a talented young high school kid named Ron Kane, who can not only pitch a 100 m.p.h. fastball, but hit like Babe Ruth. Kane has only one drawback: he's a murderer, a fact that might jeopardize the Sox's first World Series win in years. So when the team bigwigs begin to suspect the truth, their first thought is to cover it up....
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