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When Jigsaw Jones and his partner, Mila Yeh, park their bikes at a garage sale on 17 Penny Lane, they know all they're going to ride away with is trouble. Elana Wonderly has "accidentally" sold her brother's prized Maltese Falcon and she's hired Jigsaw and Mila to get it back. But there's more to little Miss Wonderly than meets the eye. Can Jigsaw and Mila trust their new client? Or are these detectives being double-crossed?
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The Third-Grade Detectives are looking forward to their field trip to a local art museum, where a priceless fifteenth-century statue of Joan of Arc is on loan from a Paris museum. But they discover the statue has been stolen. The police find the statue smashed and thrown in a Dumpster. It looks like a case for the Third Grade Detectives even if the museum director doesn't want their help.
47) L is for liberty
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This book describes the Statue of Liberty and provides a history of how this famous statue was brought to New York Harbor as a gift from France to welcome immigrants and to stand as a symbol of freedom in America.
54) Liberty
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Discusses all the planning and efforts that went into the construction of one of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty.
58) Leonardo's horse
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Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.
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"By day, the library lions Patience and Fortitude guard the iconic New York Public Library. But when the sun goes down, and the library closes, their work is done, and it is time for fun. This debut wordless picture book brings the reader along on a late-night subway trip to the wild and wonderful Coney Island, where the two lions fit right in and indulge in some classic New York City-style fun. Will they make it back to the library before dawn? And...
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"When an Indigenous group demands the local schools name be changed, rifts are formed within the community and the legacies of who we honour from history are challenged. This mystery/adventure set in a small BC lumber town is a fictional account of an event that is similar to many across the country - a sudden conflict over a school name and the historic figure it recognizes."--