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1) Jumanji
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Young Alan Parrish is sent to the jungles of Jumanji as he plays a mysterous board game. Twenty-six years later he is set free when two children play the game. Together they must outwit the powerful game, before new problems occur.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London, but when a high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee and his mistress are killed just hours before the opening ceremony, the killer must be identified before others meet the same fate.
5) Piggies
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant and Piggie, who are best friends, play a game to surprise each other by a big rock and their fun takes a strange turn when Gerald gets worried.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
12) Nerve
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Vee finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, controlled by anonymous watchers.
13) Who likes rain?
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a young girl splashes in the rain, she plays a guessing game with the reader about other living things that enjoy a cloudburst.
Author
Language
English
Description
A treasure trove of behavioral information to give a huge edge over the competition, this guide teaches how to read tells-the subtle ways in which opponents betray themselves through body language, table talk, chip moves, eye contact, and more-in order to increase chances of winning in poker. Tells are rarely obvious and it takes concentration to find them, but this book shows how to identify them and use them to an advantage to exploit others' weaknesses...
Author
Language
English
Description
With the help of the easy-to-master steps in this book, even a novice gambler can go from being a traditional blackjack player to a card counter-an advantage player with a true edge over the house. For a dozen years, Frank Scoblete was a devastating card-counter, consistently beating casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Tunica, Mississippi and angering the casino bosses by knowing more about how to win money than almost anyone who ever challenged...
Author
Language
English
Description
With the help of numerous easy-to-master steps in this breakthrough book, readers will go from being a traditional blackjack player to being an advantage player with a real edge over the house. Insight into how the game of blackjack is really played pairs with traditional strategies for one, two, fours, six, and eight deck games, in this ultimate resources for mastering the blackjack table. Additional topics include smart betting advice for the non-advantage...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"What was the last game you played? Video game, board game, world building game? In Game Logic: Level Up and Create Your Own Games with Science Activities for Kids , middle schoolers take on the world of games by figuring out what makes them challenging, fun, and addictive! Kids love games. Board games are still wildly popular, despite the profusion of video gaming devices that reach audiences as young as toddlerhood. World-building games such as...
Author
Language
English
Description
Penned by a reputable authority on casinos, this guide provides the tools of the trade in order to perform a successful climb to the top of the gaming mountain. A step-by-step instructional approach is presented, going beyond the standard handbooks on blackjack, craps, and slots to include tips and tricks on baccarat, roulette, and more. A must-have for both casual and professional gamblers throughout the nation, this invaluable companion is guaranteed...
Author
Language
English
Description
The endgame study, like the chess problem, eliminates over-the-board competition to concentrate on an invented endgame position carefully plotted to fox, bewilder, challenge, and otherwise stimulate the solver. Unlike problems, studies do not stipulate the number of moves to the solution; they demand a greater knowledge of endgame theory, thus becoming useful tools for actual players while giving "studyists" self-contained epiphanies of compositional...
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