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1) Bet Me
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Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairly tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Cal Morrisey knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they cut their losses and agree never to see each other again. But Fate has other plans, and it's not long before Min and Cal are dealing with a jealous ex-boyfriend, Krispy Kreme donuts,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory, and to buying the minibike he's always wanted. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"A mysterious gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Accompanied by his hapless servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out on a journey through jungles, deserts and mountains, across oceans and into great dangers"--
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"Reluctant socialite Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of significance and leave her mark on the world. When her local suffragette group asks her to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness of their cause, she jumps at the chance, even though she has absolutely no climbing experience. If she can do it, any woman can do it. And after her mother issues an ultimatum--that Cora marry the man of her mother's choosing if she is not successful--Cora must...
8) Grizz!
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In a cowboy version of a traditional tale found in both Russia and Germany, Lucky Doolin makes a deal with the Devil, agreeing not to wash, shave, or change his clothes for seven years, thus earning a fortune and the hand of his true love.
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2018
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Fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick has traveled from New Mexico Territory to Galveston, Texas, with his father, Edward, who will be competing in a horse race that's offering a $3,000 prize to the winner. But a terrible accident seriously injures Evan's drunken father, forcing Evan to saddle up instead. And this is no ordinary race. Its course is eighteen hundred miles -- and maybe even longer -- between Texas and New England, and Evan will be riding an...
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Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
13) Choco-Louie
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Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Louie's older brother bets his new skateboard that Louie can't go an entire week without eating any chocolate.
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Pub. Date
c2009
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Johannes Cabal, a brillian scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul--he hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Sataon, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager, Johannes has one years to persuade one hundred people to sign over their...
17) The Gameshouse
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2019.
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Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse, but few know all its secrets. It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon—every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league, where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where capture the castle involves real castles and where hide-and-seek takes place on the scale of a continent....
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2021.
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"Who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring 'round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman." But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion...
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When George bets his friend Louie that his basketball team will win an upcoming game, his safety monitor best friend reports him and he's forced to miss the game, possibly losing George the bet and forcing him to be Louie's butler for a week.
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Byrons of Braebourne novels volume 2
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c2009
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"He had to marry her. Everyone in London agrees the Byrons are just "as mad, bad, and dangerous to know" as their poetic non-relation. But Lord Jack Byron is facing a predicament that is scandalous...even for him! Marry a young woman because he lost a bet? Unreformed rake Lord Jack Byron would do anything to get out of it. But the rich merchant who holds his debt insists Jack lead his on-the-shelf daughter to the altar...and make her believe it's...
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