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Discworld volume 32
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Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's Going Postal, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn't want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian...
3) Mailing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
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Series
Discworld volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
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Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke--until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through...
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Horrible Harry volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1944, four friends, part of the only unit of Black women to serve overseas in World War II, work tirelessly to reunite soldiers with their loved ones through the letters they write and find things taking a personal turn when a backlogged letter upends their lives.
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Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
11) Bear at work
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bear happily spends a busy day delivering letters and packages, and the reader is invited to guess the jobs of the bears he sees around town.
12) The lost package
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Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A tour of the busy work that takes place at post offices is depicted through the journey of a lost package that receives a little help reaching its destination, proving that distance cannot keep loved ones apart
15) Mr. Griggs' Work
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Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it.
16) Send it!
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe a package as it makes its way across country, from the time it is wrapped and addressed until it is delivered and opened.
18) Penguin post
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Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While his mother is looking for food and his father is tending their egg, a young penguin named Milo is charged with delivering the mail, not knowing that he is about to make a very special delivery.
19) Island birthday
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
As Alex anxiously awaits the plane that will bring a birthday present from his grandmother, he goes visiting in his island community and discovers that others are at least as eager for the storm to clear so that they can get items they need or want.