The DZB Chronicles

Chickens on the loose! Spring has sprung in River Heights! Nancy’s class is hatching chickens to celebrate. Some of Nancy’s classmates are excited, especially Tommy Marin. Tommy has even names all the eggs! But other classmates are less thrilled about the arrival of the little birds. Catherine Spangler is peeved because the chicks are due to arrive on HER birthday - the nerve! But when the chicks vanish from the classroom, everyone is upset. Who would steal helpless chick eggs? Nancy knows she has a real egg of a mystery to crack this time!

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It’s Valentine’s Day, but things are not all hearts and flowers for Nancy! While she and her best friends, Bess and George, are making their own stuffed animals at Farmer Fran’s Barnyard Buddies, someone slips a mean valentine into Bess’ animal’s pocket. What’s worse than a mean valentine? Bess thinks it came from George! Now the two are in their worst fight ever - and Nancy’s caught in the middle! How can she see Bess and George’s friendship - not to mention the Clue Crew - back together?

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Nancy, George, and Bess are on a ski trip! They are having tons of fun, and Bess proves a natural for the slopes. She even wins a special award! But when the ski supply room is suddenly trashed, all eyes turn to Bess. It looks like she’s a suspect this time around. Nancy is sure Bess is innocent, but how can she prove it? And just when it seems things can’t get any worse, a snowstorm closes the road home. The Clue Crew is trapped at the ski lodge! Can Nancy find a way to clear Bess’ name…and will they ever get home?

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Jack and his sister, Annie, must go to California! They must look at nature! They must save the wilderness! Save it from what, exactly? That’s what Jack and Annie must find out when the magic tree house lands in the tallest tree on earth. The nature around them is so grand and peaceful - is it really in danger? Two travelers, two sketchbooks, and one grizzly bear will show Jack and Annie that danger isn’t always seen with the eyes. Sometimes it’s felt with the heart.

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River Heights Elementary is throwing a Fall Festival! It promises to be full of fun games, great food, and amazing amusement park rides - even a roller coaster! All of the kids on River Heights, including Nancy, George, and Bess, are very excited and have been working hard to earn extra money for festival tickets. So when Nancy’s friend Ned claims someone stole his hard-earned tickets, the Clue Crew jumps into action. The girls are in a race against time to find Ned’s tickets. And it turns out the culprit might have a very different reason for needing them…

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A kidnapping, a murder, a jailbreak. Of this we’re Winnie Foster’s story only, it would be like any other great adventure: you would come to the end, with all resolved, and that would be that. But this is also the story of the Tuck family and therefore, though it has a beginning and an middle, it can never end. I he two stories cross near the village of Treegap during a handful of hot August days in the 1880’s, days which are a curious mixture of violence and love, of anguish and tranquility. And when those days are over, young Winnie is left to make a fundamental choice. What she chooses at last is not what she might have chosen at first. For when you have known the Tucks as Winnie has, however briefly, you can never be quite the same again.

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When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it into their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary flying car…and it wants to be on the move again! No matter how hard the Tootings pull on the steering wheel or stomp on the brakes, Chitty takes control, hurtling the family from country to country in search of her long-lost bodywork. But is the family and their unusually special car safe from a sinister baddie on their trail?

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The Clue Crew is in for a fright! It’s Halloween in River Heights! The girls can’t wait to go trick-or-treating and are busy getting their costumes ready. They also can’t wait for the Halloween special of their favorite TV show. They even get a chance to visit the TV studio while the show is being taped! But soon after they arrive, Nancy is spooked. With all the scary noises the Clue Crew keeps hearing and the creepy shadows that seem to be lurking, it seems like the studio is haunted! Is it just Halloween jitters…or are there really such things as ghosts?

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I’m Finn McAllister, I’m a normal middle schooler, and on June sixth I died. I know, I know - you weren’t expecting me to die so soon. Me neither. But dying is just the beginning of my story. You see, now I’m a ghost. I don’t have to go to school. I can play as many video game as I want. And I can try every ice cream in the store. I’ve made a new friend, too. She’s also a ghost. It’s pretty neat, huh? Only thing is, I have some unfinished business. And until I, we’ll, finish it, I can’t really move on…

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The Clue Crew is seeing stars! Look out - the Clue Crew is heading to Hollywood! Carson Drew’s client invited him to the set of a new movie - starring the most famous cat in Hollywood, Fluffington! The girls are thrilled when Mr. Drew asks them to come along. They get their first taste of a real movie set and are even cast as extras in the film. Plus they get to pet Fluffington as much as they want. But then Fluffington vanishes. When no one can find the famous feline, the Clue Crew springs into action - because a movie is not a movie without its star!

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