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  • The Search for Snake River

    Jesse Wiley

    eBook (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 4, 2018)
    Explore the frontier, young pioneer--the third leg of your journey starts here. You're halfway to Oregon City, but as you know, the Oregon Trail is full of risks and surprises! This is the third installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory--if you make the right choices. In book three of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and you've traveled for more than two months on foot for fifteen miles a day with your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen. You've crossed prairies, rivers, and mountains and have faced stampeding buffalo. But your journey is not yet over. There are still months of travel ahead of you—if you can survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River at Three Island Crossing! Trust yourself. Every decision counts! Which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never find Snake River. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!
  • The Search for Snake River

    Jesse Wiley

    Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 4, 2018)
    Explore the frontier, young pioneer--the third leg of your journey starts here. You're halfway to Oregon City, but as you know, the Oregon Trail is full of risks and surprises! This is the third installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory--if you make the right choices. In book three of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and you've traveled for more than two months on foot for fifteen miles a day with your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen. You've crossed prairies, rivers, and mountains and have faced stampeding buffalo. But your journey is not yet over. There are still months of travel ahead of you—if you can survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River at Three Island Crossing! Trust yourself. Every decision counts! Which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never find Snake River. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Paperback (Yearling, April 8, 2003)
    "The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term "foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team.Then Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl at the mall. The girl asks Sammy to watch her bag and dashes off before Sammy discovers that the bag she's left holding contains a baby! When the girl doesn't return, Sammy decides to go find her. A heart-pounding search ensues, and leads to some situations that are definitely not covered in the softball playbook. The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    eBook (Yearling, Dec. 24, 2008)
    "The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term "foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team.Then Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl at the mall. The girl asks Sammy to watch her bag and dashes off before Sammy discovers that the bag she's left holding contains a baby! When the girl doesn't return, Sammy decides to go find her. A heart-pounding search ensues, and leads to some situations that are definitely not covered in the softball playbook. The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, May 28, 2002)
    Sammy’s softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger’s Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term “foul ball” as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team. And Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl in the mall. She begs Sammy to watch something for her and then dashes off before Sammy realizes that the bag she’s left holding contains a baby! Now there are some pitches that you shouldn’t even try to catch, but Sammy’s a take-it-in-the-chest-protector kind of player. So when the girl doesn’t return for her baby, Sammy decides to go find her. And her search leads her into situations that are just not covered in a softball playbook.
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  • The Search for Snout

    Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville

    language (Aladdin, Feb. 25, 2014)
    SOMEWHERE SNOUT IS WAITING. Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: Where in the wide, wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts? Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters. But the clues they uncover there only deepen the mystery -- and the danger. For Rod and his friends have stumbled into something far bigger and more dangerous than any of them had ever dreamed. At stake are their honor, their lives, their sanity, and (just possibly) the fate of the universe.
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  • The Search for Snake River

    Jesse Wiley

    Hardcover (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 4, 2018)
    Explore the frontier, young pioneer--the third leg of your journey starts here. You're halfway to Oregon City, but as you know, the Oregon Trail is full of risks and surprises! This is the third installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory--if you make the right choices. In book three of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and you've traveled for more than two months on foot for fifteen miles a day with your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen. You've crossed prairies, rivers, and mountains and have faced stampeding buffalo. But your journey is not yet over. There are still months of travel ahead of you—if you can survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River at Three Island Crossing! Trust yourself. Every decision counts! Which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never find Snake River. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!
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  • The Search for Snout

    Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville

    Paperback (Aladdin, Sept. 11, 2007)
    SOMEWHERE SNOUT IS WAITING. Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: Where in the wide, wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts? Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters. But the clues they uncover there only deepen the mystery -- and the danger. For Rod and his friends have stumbled into something far bigger and more dangerous than any of them had ever dreamed. At stake are their honor, their lives, their sanity, and (just possibly) the fate of the universe.
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  • The Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Van Draanen, Lizzie Finlay

    Paperback (Scholastic Ltd, June 30, 2004)
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, April 1, 2003)
    Sammy' s softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger' s Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term " foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team. And Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl in the mall. She begs Sammy to watch something for her and then dashes off before Sammy realizes that the bag she' s left holding contains a baby! Now there are some pitches that you shouldn' t even try to catch, but Sammy' s a take-it-in-the-chest-protector kind of player. So when the girl doesn' t return for her baby, Sammy decides to go find her. And her search leads her into situations that are just not covered in a softball playbook.
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes

    Wendelin Vandraanen, Tara Sands

    Audio CD (Live Oak Media (NY), Aug. 30, 2003)
    In her most dangerous mystery to date, Sammy is literally left holding the bag! When a strange girl who is trying to escape from a scary looking guy at the mall asks her to watch her shopping bag and then flees, Sammy is alarmed to discover that inside the bag is a baby! In her seventh adventure, the intrepid detective puts her life on the line as she confronts the seamy gang life of her hometown in her search for the baby's mother. And, as usual, her attempts to solve the case are thwarted along the way by her high school nemesis Acosta and problems with her grandmother's nosy new neighbor in this edge-of-the seat mystery.
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  • The Search for the Sea

    Robert Thorne, Mark Shaw

    language (, March 31, 2015)
    A short tale about a starfish and crab who find one day that the sea has disappeared. They set off on a journey to find out where it has gone in the hope that they can persuade it to return.