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Cracking the magikarp code

Ethan and Devin have finally gotten the puppy of their dreams! Even better, taking their new pup to the dog park near the lake means the chance to explore a new Pokemon GO habitat! But the energetic puppy chews on everything in sight, including a map.
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Chasing Butterfree

On a trip to the zoo, Team Mystic encounters plenty of rare Pokemon. Then Gianna loses her lucky Pokemon-catching cap, and their fortunes take a turn for the worse. Suddenly, there's not a Pokemon in sight, and the friends have to stop throwing Poke Balls and start searching the zoo for Gianna's favorite cap.
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The haunted library

When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans.
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Stolen treasure

Alchemist Edison and his treasure hunter friend, Billy, have just returned from a successful trip to the Nether, coming home with tons of valuable loot. Before they can trade their loot, the chest of treasures mysteriously disappears from Edison's ho.

Beneath the blocks

After solving the mystery of the stolen treasure, Edison is all set to return to his alchemy when his friend Omar shows up at his door pleading for help. There is something or someone living beneath the blocks of Omar's town, and things have started to take a treacherous turn. What started out as the theft of livestock and wheat has escalated, and villagers have started to go missing as well.
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The traitor in the tunnel

The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a palace maid and fending off the attentions of the Prince of Wales are challenging enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder, Mary's case becomes antything but petty. Engineer and former flame James Easton has an assignment in the sewers, where someone is making illicit use of the tunnels. Mary will need James's help if she's going to catch a thief, solve a murder and avert disaster.

A spy in the house

2009
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Rivals in the city

2014
Mary Quinn is asked to take on one more case for the Agency, to watch for the return of Mrs. Thorold, whose husband is dying in jail and who has a grudge against Mary's fiance and partner in crime-solving, James Easton.

The body at the tower

2010
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.

Scooby-Doo and the dinosaur ghost

Scooby and the gang are digging for dinosaur bones for the museum when some of the bones go missing. Did a dinosaur ghost take them? It's up to the gang to find the missing bones and save the exhibit. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

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