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Aripi de zăpadă by Constantin Chiriță
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMunţii acoperiţi cu zăpadă le aduc Cireşarilor numeroase provocări. Lupii flămânzi, avalanşele şi prăpăstiile sunt ingrediente ale aventurii lor în confruntarea cu nişte bandiţi care caută o enigmatică şi nepreţuită cutie albastră, dispărută în urma unui hold-up tipic din Bucureştiul anului 1944...Categorized as:
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![Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction...Categorized as:
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![Castelul fetei in alb by Constantin Chiriță]()
Castelul fetei in alb by Constantin Chiriță
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaura este o fată nou venită în orășel care vrea să se împrietenească cu renumiții Cireșari. Din păcate, bunica ei îi interzice acest lucru, așa că Laura pornește singură către Castelul celor două cruci. Ea ajunge la castel, dar este capturată și facută prizonieră acolo. Ea le trimite un bilet Cireșarilor care urmează un traseu foarte încâlcit...Categorized as:
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![Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson]()
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians...Categorized as:
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![The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton]()
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep. In the magic Faraway Tree live the magical characters that soon become their new friends – Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, and Saucepan Man...Categorized as:
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![The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day... -
![The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley]()
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOn a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear...Categorized as:
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![The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater]()
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWalter and Winston set out to rescue the inventor of the Alligatron, a computer developed from an avocado which is the world's last defense against the space-realtors...Categorized as:
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![Quarantine In The Grand Hotel by Jenő Rejtő]()
Quarantine In The Grand Hotel by Jenő Rejtő
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsQuarantine in the Grand Hotel centers around a mysterious murder in a hotel on the island of Little Lagonda, which is put under quarantine because one of the guests seems to have contracted bubonic plague. However, just before the quarantine is declared, the police arrive, and so does a young man, who hides in his pyjamas in the wardrobe of Miss Maud Borckman... -
![The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder]()
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobin was always wandering off (her mother's words) to get away from the confusion she felt inside her. It was not until Robin's father found a permanent job at the McCurdy ranch, after three years as a migrant worker, that Robin had a place to wander to...Categorized as:
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![A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery: Master Detective by Astrid Lindgren]()
A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery: Master Detective by Astrid Lindgren
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA gripping middle-grade mystery from internationally best-selling author Astrid Lindgren. For most the summer holidays in a small Swedish town would be spent swimming, fishing, or sailing. But a super sleuth like Kalle Blomkvist is always looking for the next case to crack...Categorized as:
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![The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill]()
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe pushcarts have declared war! New York City's streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city...Categorized as:
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![Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo]()
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke. It was a grey day with drizzle in the air, the great sad cranes bowing to the ship from the docks as we steamed past... -
![The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner]()
The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe Boxcar Children is a children's literary franchise originally created and written by American writer and first-grade school teacher,[1] Gertrude Chandler Warner. Today, the series includes well over 100 titles. The series is aimed at readers in grades 2-6...Categorized as:
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![Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo]()
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realises there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive...Categorized as:
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![The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder]()
The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIvy Carson belonged to the notorious Carson family, which lived in a run-down house in suburban Rosewood. But Ivy was not a typical Carson. There was something wonderful about her. Ivy explained it by saying that she was a changeling, a child of supernatural parents who had been exchanged for the real Ivy Carson at birth. This classic book was first published in 1970...Categorized as:
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![Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr]()
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIll and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone...Categorized as:
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![Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy Strange]()
Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy Strange
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings* "A plot summary can only hint at the satisfaction of reading this tightly interwoven story with its haunting setting and memorable characters." -Booklist (starred review)In this haunting and compelling follow-up to the instant classic The Secret of Nightingale Wood. Lucy Strange takes a seafaring myth and grounds it in the stark reality of World War II...Categorized as:
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![Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze]()
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe had the face of a madonna and a heart made of dollar bills.She was sitting on the floor, naked, in a skitter of green bills. Beyond her was the custodian, still simpering in death. She was scooping up handfuls of the green money and dropping it on top of her head so that it came sliding down along the cream-colored hair, slipping down along her shoulders and body... -
![Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken]()
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSimon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea...Categorized as:
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![Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright]()
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSummer has a magic all its own.When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she expects fun and adventure, but of the usual kind: exploring in the woods near Julian's house, collecting stones and bugs, playing games throughout the long, lazy days.But this summer is different... -
![Mollie Peer: or, The Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League by Van Reid]()
Mollie Peer: or, The Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League by Van Reid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the second hilarious adventure of the Moosepath League, Mollie Peer, the feisty society columnist for the Eastern Argus, follows up on a lead she hopes will win her that elusive promotion to reporter... -
![The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton]()
The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmazon store this book for us, then pick, pack and deliver as well as provide 1st Class customer service. Books Found Fast via Amazon. -
![The Big Six by Arthur Ransome]()
The Big Six by Arthur Ransome
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere's a crime wave on the lake! All evidence points to three boatbuilders' sons. They claim to be innocent but, as accusations mount, their families' livelihood is threatened. It's up to the three boys, and three other members of the Coot Club Bird Protection Society, to solve the mystery and clear their name...Categorized as:
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![Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald]()
Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as possible. But trouble has a way of finding him, no matter where he hides. An old friend, conned out of his life savings by his ex-wife, has tracked him down and is desperate for help... -
![The Sea of Adventure by Enid Blyton]()
The Sea of Adventure by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEnid Blyton’s classic adventure series fantastically repackaged for a new generation of readers. When Bill takes Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack on a mysterious trip to the desolate northern isles, everything looks set for an exciting time. But then Bill is kidnapped and the children, marooned far from the mainland, find themselves playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with an unknown enemy...Categorized as:
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![The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton]()
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn adventure for the Five Find-Outers and their dog. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster become involved in a very peculiar situation when a series of unsigned letters are sent to various people in Peterswood...Categorized as:
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![Die Schattenspinnerin by Susan Fletcher, Anne Brauner]()
Die Schattenspinnerin by Susan Fletcher, Anne Brauner
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn an adventure equal to any a storyteller might relate, a crippled serving girl faces the intrigues of the harem, the dangers of the streets, and the anger of the Sultan himself to find the needed ending to an incomplete story...Categorized as:
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![Homer Price by Robert McCloskey]()
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWelcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk... -
![Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek]()
Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCapek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism...Categorized as:
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![The Railway Children (Illustrated, with Audiobook links) (E. Nesbit 4) by E. Nesbit]()
The Railway Children (Illustrated, with Audiobook links) (E. Nesbit 4) by E. Nesbit
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsEdith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways...Categorized as:
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![Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool]()
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job...Categorized as:
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![The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson]()
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAnnika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home...Categorized as:
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![Five Go to Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton]()
Five Go to Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBleak and eerie, Mystery Moor is well-known for its spooky atmosphere, but is there something really scary out there? The Famous Five are intrigued, but the unfriendly travellers camped on the moor aren't letting on...Categorized as:
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![Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner]()
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOn the train, his fellow passengers are impressed with how polite and grown-up Emil is, and the man in the bowler hat offers him some chocolate—but Emil keeps checking his coat pocket, where he’s pinned the money that he is taking to his grandmother. Soon, though, Emil finds himself getting sleepy . .Categorized as:
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![Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm]()
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing’s that easy in Penny’s family. For starters, she can’t go swimming because her mother’s afraid she’ll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a car. Her Nonny cries every time her father’s name is mentioned...Categorized as:
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![Five Go to Demon's Rocks by Enid Blyton]()
Five Go to Demon's Rocks by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Famous Five have heard the stories about treasure on Demon's Rocks - bu they never thought they were really true! But then they discover a very old and valuable gold coin and what was a myth becomes real! Who does the treasure belong to? The gang are determined to find out, but first they need to know who else is exploring Demon's Rocks for the Treasure - just like they are . .Categorized as:
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![South by Southeast by Anthony Horowitz]()
South by Southeast by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt looks like Tim, the world’s worst private detective, and Nick, his brainy kid brother, are in trouble again. They’re dead broke. But money is the least of their worries when a mysterious man bursts into their office and offers Tim a wad of cash for his coat. Minutes later, the stranger is dead and Nick and Tim are left to puzzle over his final words...Categorized as:
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![Spiderweb For Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright]()
Spiderweb For Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRandy and Oliver Melendy awake one morning full of gloom. Their brothers and sisters are away, the house seems forlorn and empty, and even Cuffy, their adored housekeeper, can't pick up their spirits... -
![The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck]()
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"More death! More, if you do not stop it. Others lost, like me in the black water. Save them!"When Alexander first sees the eerie glow in the dormer window of the barn, it sets his heart pounding. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom Culp's words come back to him: "You can make contact with the Unseen...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene, Sara Paretsky]()
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene, Sara Paretsky
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNancy, unaided, seeks to find a missing will. To the surprise of many, the Topham family will inherit wealthy Josiah Crowley's fortune, instead of deserving relatives and friends who were promised inheritances. Nancy determines that a clue to a second will might be found in an old clock Mr. Crowley had owned and she seeks to find the timepiece...Categorized as:
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![The Adventurous Four by Enid Blyton]()
The Adventurous Four by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAndy 14 takes pals visiting WW2 NE Scotland for an overnighter on Little Island. Small wiry redhead Tom 12 has cheerful twin sisters 10, Zoe and Pippa, with "thick golden plaits and deep blue eyes." But a sudden storm shipwrecks their little sailboat on deserted islets - with a cave of food supplies, a cove of submarines, and a seaplane of foreigners...Categorized as:
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![Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse by Helen Wells]()
Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse by Helen Wells
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCherry Ames is back, just as you remember her! The books are just as you remember them, retaining the same look, feel, and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format just like the originals, these books will transport you back to the days when you were reading about this spunky young nurse...Categorized as:
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![The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley]()
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsFrom Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads...Categorized as:
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![Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink]()
Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. They’re not the only survivors; with them are four babies. Immediately the sisters set out to make the island a home for themselves and the little ones. A classic tale of courage and dedication from a Newbery Medalist author... -
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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy...Categorized as:
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![The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene]()
The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTeenage detective Nancy Drew finds herself in danger when she sets out to track a jewel thief...Categorized as:
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![The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene]()
The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNancyís sympathy for adopted twin babies leads her into a surprising mystery...Categorized as:
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![The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene, Carolyn G. Hart]()
The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene, Carolyn G. Hart
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNancy, as mediator in a generation-old feud, divulges an unknown birthright...Categorized as:
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The Clue in the Diary by Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNancy and her friends witness an explosion and the burning of a beautiful country mansion. Fearing its occupants may be trapped in the blazing building, they rush to the rescue--and unexpectedly find themselves confronted with a mystery that seems insoluble. The first clue is an anonymous diary--its entries in a handwriting difficult to decipher...Categorized as:
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