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If you were a retired racing greyhound, say, about four years old and you could with yourself anywhere to live, you'd probably pick a place with lots of running room, warm sun, shade and gentle breezes, right? WRONG! Not our hero, Comet. He finds himself plunked down in the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of Newq York City. Adopted by Rob and Jesse Brooks and their eight year old daughter, Patty, he's faced with a new family and a new place to live that...
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Hot Dog and Bob volume 1
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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Bob is just an ordinary boy with ordinary friends who goes to an ordinary school, each and every day. But this is no ordinary day. Today when Bob opens his lunch box, he finds Hot Dog—a real, live, talking hot dog! Hot Dog says he's from another planet. He's here to save Earth. And—gulp—he needs Bob's help! Full of humor, quirky characters, brief fast-paced chapters, and funny black-and-white illustrations on each page, Hot Dog and...
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Hot Dog and Bob volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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It's Career Day at Luggenheimer Elementary. When one parent arrives to talk about being a toy maker, things start to go mysteriously wrong. Now Hot Dog, Bob, and Clementine face the most mysterious villain ever hypnotizing plush hamsters.
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Hot Dog and Bob volume 4
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English
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Bob, Clementine, and Miss Lamphead's entire class find themselves mysteriously transported to the domain of the Exceptionally Eggy Game Gators. Will Bob and Clementine find their way out of the gators' maze in time to save themselves and the world?
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Hot Dog and Bob volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Be afraid of your pencil. Be VERY afraid! Just when Bob is getting over their last battle with the grossly evil pizza alien, he and Hot Dog have a new enemy to tackle: crafty little pencil snatchers from the planet Pencilvania. Beginning readers will be clamoring for Hot Dog and Bob's second adventure.
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Bob is just an ordinary boy with ordinary friends who goes to an ordinary school, each and every day. But this is no ordinary day. Today when Bob opens his lunch box, he finds Hot Dog-a real, live, talking hot dog! Hot Dog says he's from another planet. He's here to save Earth. And-gulp-he needs Bob's help! Full of humor, quirky characters, brief fast-paced chapters, and funny black-and-white illustrations on each page, Hot Dog and Bob is sure to...
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Hot Dog and Bob volume 5
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English
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The adventures of Hot Dog and Bob continue in this bone-chewing new episode! All was going well at the fifth-grade fundraiser until talking dogs from the planet Bowwowwowwow arrive to take over Earth and turn Bob and his unsuspecting classmates into their pets! Hot Dog and Bob must battle this new lazer-beam-chewie-wielding alien duo and save their friends and themselves!
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Hot dog vendor Mark MacFarland — "Mac" to his friends — is suspicious when a young construction worker, Wanda Warren, approaches him with a tale of conspiracy, fraud, and murder. A friend of hers died in a tragic work accident, but she thinks that there is more to the story than workplace tragedy. She thinks he was killed to keep him quiet.
MacFarland is not so sure. He is initially convinced that the woman is part of an elaborate April Fool's...
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Galactic hot dogs volume 1
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English
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Over the course of one very strange night, Cosmoe went from being an adventure-seeking, thirteen-year-old Earthling orphan to a hot-dog-slinging space traveler. He has all the adventure he once craved and more aboard the Neon Wiener--part spaceship, part food truck--selling their trademark "Galactic Hot Dogs." Cosmoe and the rest of the crew journey to food competitions across the universe serving up the wildly popular wieners ... until they gain...
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MacFarland knows what it's like to live on the streets. Although he now has a place to live, he still keeps an eye out for the homeless community. He's overjoyed when he learns that one of the "invisible people" he's helped, Teena, a runaway teenager, has gotten a job in a mountain camp for homeless youth. But when one of her friends goes missing, she turns to MacFarland for help.
MacFarland soon discovers that the girl's friend has been killed and...
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A dose of religion! MacFarland's sister-in-law wants to improve MacFarland's life, and what better way to do that than to get him involved with a church? Not just any church...the Church of Blessed Grace which promises you not only spiritual happiness but economic success. How could one go wrong with that combination?
Being a rather cynical and suspicious person, MacFarland is a bit dubious about this church. When he discovers that the girl he has...
13) The Freaky Fan
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Football is back!
For those of us who enjoy seeing twenty-two huge muscular men mash it up on a large field, this time of year is a welcome one. Especially for those of us whose baseball team has not fared as well as we had hoped, the prospect of football, where the agony of a loss comes usually only once a week, is a inspiring.
MacFarland, alas, is not a football fan. Several years on the streets, with no access to television or even radio broadcasts,...
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Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves...gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder.
MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciades is innocent. To do that, MacFarland will have to contend with a deceptive thirteen-year old girl, an angry father, crooked cops, and his own doubts and uncertainty.
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MacFarland knew in his heart that Scott Porter really was guilty...
The problem was, he had promised his sister-in-law that he would find a way to prove the man innocent. All he had to do was find out who really killed the man's wife, Amanda.
But as every cop knew, it usually was the husband. Then, when the first of several homeless men were discovered killed in the same way as Amanda had been, MacFarland realized he was dealing with a serial killer.
What...
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Galactic hot dogs volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Cosmoe the Earth-boy and his space-adventuring partners, Big Humphree and Princess Dagger, return--just in time to save the galaxy...Crostini's Cosmic Carnival is a strange, monster-filled space train that travels the galaxy. When Cosmoe catches the attention of the carnival's ringmaster, the Neon Wiener, hot-dog-selling spaceship, becomes part of the show. Cosmoe is now known as Cosmoe the Monster-Tamer--and he's a hit across the galaxy! Just one...
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Mark MacFarland, a former detective with the Denver Police Department, always knew that the Mile High City had a seamier side, but it had never been his particular playground. After all, despite its lurid reputation, Denver's kink community was relatively peaceful and unobtrusive.
That all changes when Thorne Rose, a submissive participating in a BDSM "scene" dies. At first the death is ruled accidental…but that all changes when the ME discovers...
18) The Lazy Lawyer
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Most of the time, Defense Attorney Jerry Baker asked MacFarland to find the evidence he needs to get one of his usually guilty clients a lesser sentence or even off the hook. Most of the time, MacFarland does so because he trusts Baker's judgment about people. But this time, it's different. This time it's Jerry Baker who is accused of murder.
Jerry Baker is the prime suspect in the murder of his co-counsel. The evidence looks bad: a gun that had...
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Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running for the U.S. Senate....
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Galactic hot dogs volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Cosmoe, Princess Dagger, Humphree, and the gang are back for another swashbuckling space adventure in the third hilarious illustrated novel of the Galactic Hot Dogs series, which Big Nate author Lincoln Peirce calls "an insanely entertaining, eye-popping adventure." Secrets about Cosmoe and Big Humphree's past are revealed during a twisty new adventure for the crew of the Neon Wiener, leading up to a major turning point in all of their lives aboard...
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