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Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Today is Princess Magnolia's birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every time Princess Magnolia is about to open her presents, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Georgia's Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts.
During the Great Depression, destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions in remote labor camps isolated throughout the expansive pine forests of the American South....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. Now Delaware and Sturgis must track down the killer.
Author
Language
English
Description
Pampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his dashing brother. Praying no one will recognize her, Margaret fumbles through the first real work of her life. But can she remain hidden even when prying eyes visit Fairbourne Hall?
5) Tried & true
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kylie Wilde is the youngest sister--and the most civilized. Her older sisters might be happy dressing in trousers and posing as men, but Kylie has grown her hair long and wears skirts every chance she gets. It's a risk--they are homesteading using the special exemptions they earned serving in the Civil War as "boys"--but Kylie plans to make the most of the years before she can sell her property and return to the luxuries of life back East. Local land...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Kade McKettrick's got five mail order brides-to-be at the local hotel, and they're all more than eager to brave the frontier and provide the heir that will win Kade the Triple M ranch. The newly appointed marshal already has his hands full with a troublesome outlaw gang, yet he can't seem to think of much else besides 'Sister Mandy' who is obviously not the nun she claims to be. On the run from her outlaw stepfather, Mandy Sperrin is hiding a wild,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave, and debonair. Walter is not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo is forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise, transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a team, or the whole world is in peril.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charged by Araluen's King Duncan to covertly rescue the Prince of Gallica from a politically ambitious baron, Will Treaty and his apprentice Maddie take to the road disguised as father and daughter jongleurs.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When everything starts going wrong on Annie and Liam's wedding day, Queen Karolina decides that they need the help of her fairy godmother, Moonbeam, but a magical fog keeps messengers from leaving so Annie and Liam themselves set out discover who ruined the wedding, and why.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to do the man's dirty work to set them free. It's something Riley ordinarily...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise and violent when he needs to be. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets only the .1% and is willing to kill when necessary: He despises the degenerate and immoral possessors of the objects that he steals. In this series launch, Riley targets an extraordinary set of crown jewels, a heist that will hopefully land him with a sensational collection of heirlooms and leave their owners bereft and embarrassed--or...
12) Where's Walrus?
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.
13) Masks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
130L
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes different kinds of masks and shows how face paint can be a part of a disguise.
15) Delivery bear
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After Zogby the bear pretends to be a cute bunny in order to get his dream job of delivering cookies, he learns he can do better by being himself.
16) Sign wave
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
Author
Series
Publisher
AvonBooks, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Libby Shaw is determined to become a member of Edinburgh's all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and nearly fools everyone. Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble--the same lips he now longs to kiss. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
20) Spin the dawn
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
392 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Disguising herself as a boy to compete for the position of imperial tailor, Maia must somehow complete the impossible task of sewing three magic gowns for the emperor's bride-to-be from the sun's laughter, the moon's tears, and the blood of stars.