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Author
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's proťǧ. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust...
2) Unplugged
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the son of the world's most famous tech billionaire, Jett Baranov has always gotten what he wants. So when his father's private jet drops him in the middle of nowhere at a place called the Oasis, Jett can't believe it. He's forced to hand over his cell phone, eat grainy veggie patties, and participate in wholesome activities with the other kids, whom he has absolutely no interest in hanging out with. As the weeks go on, Jett starts to get used...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
5) Swindle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
6) In her skin
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jolene Chastain, a con artist since early childhood, assumes the identity of a girl who went missing years before. As she takes on Vivienne Weir's life, and weaves a new life of deception with Vivi's wealthy Boston family, hidden crimes come to the surface. Can Jo escape the dangers before it's too late?
Author
Series
Shadow Game volume 2
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
599 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia.
8) Fly by night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language to find a better life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew's life, and Drew knows that when she's asked to do "one thing" it really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring. Which includes taking care of her fifteen-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year's Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start unraveling, Drew is faced with a choice: Follow the rules, do the responsible...
Author
Series
Great Pet Heist volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity on the fifth floor, Butterbean and the other pets set out to find the truth and save Mrs. Third Floor from being scammed by professional ghost hunters.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
13) A million to one
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet--the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world. But she isn't interested in stealing from wealthy first-class passengers onboard. No, she's out for the ultimate prize: the Rubiyat, a one of a kind book encrusted with gems that's worth millions. Josefa can't score it alone, so she enlists a team of girls with unique talents:...
14) Ace of shades
Author
Series
Shadow game volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Books Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
408 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets...and secrets hide in every shadow Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school--and her reputation--behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, Enne has only one...
Author
Series
Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
All of Westview is excited when teen idol Starr Silveira arrives to film an episode of her television show, but when contest winners start receiving letters asking them to return their valuable show memorabilia, sleuths-in-training Milo and Jazz suspect a scam.
16) Shipnapped!
Author
Series
Misfit's life for me volume III
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jinx has a bad feeling about a guest Captain Small is entertaining before the misfits leave Pirate Cove. Apple tells her not to worry, but she just can't shake her concerns. Back on the open ocean, the misfits run into the mysterious guest again, and this time they get a glimpse of his true colors." -- Back cover.
17) Curses
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday. Tevin Dumont has always been a pawn in his family's cons: tempting naïve rich girls to abandon their engagements, unless their parents agree to pay him off. After his mother runs afoul of the beast, he takes her...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.