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21) Monsoon
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Courtney novels volume 10
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The East Indies at the dawn of the eighteenth century. And at the farthest edges of the known world, the mighty East India Trading Company suffers catastrophic losses at the hands of pirates on the high seas. Master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, after four years away from service, prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage - a death or glory mission in the name of the crown. But Hal must also think about the fate of his three sons. Each is very...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Tom and Jamie can't believe their luck when they find a secret entrance to a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs! The boys return to the dinosaur world looking for adventure. But they get a little more than they bargained for when a herd of triceratops charges right through their lunch!
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An expedition by sea to the Arctic in 1885 to search for the explorer, John Franklin. The protagonists are two men from Philadelphia, the dynamic but foolhardy organizer and his companion, a naturalist who considers himself a loser. The loser lives, the dynamo dies. By the author of Ship Fever.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo, broken-hearted after a failed romance, sets out with his family to explore the Eighth Wonder of the Mouse World.
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Even the darkest stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Kamzin has always dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. She knows she could be the best in the world, if only someone would give her a chance.
26) The Doldrums
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Doldrums volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
27) The winter pony
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
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Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
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In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.
29) The high hills
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Brambly Hedge volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Inspired by an old tale, young mouse Wilfred uses a trip into the hills as an opportunity to look for gold and explore unknown country.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, falling in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain and forging lifelong bonds with the Inuit people who have carved out an existence on its icy plains. She sets out to become a scientist and polar explorer, despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world, and in 1892, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the...
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Dora the explorer volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Dora and Boots climb Star Mountain in search of the necklace her grandmother gave her.
33) Leo Africanus
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I. Hasan the son of Muhammad the weight-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope. I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.
34) Neptune
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
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Ranger in time volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Explorer Academy volume 6
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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"Cruz Coronado grapples with an important secret as the gang heads to China in search of the second-to-last piece of the cipher. Under the watchful eye of a new adviser, life on the ship returns to almost normal...Almost. Just as things seem to be going smoothly, a familiar face shocks Cruz back into reality, and the final piece in this life-and-death scavenger hunt veers toward a dead end"--
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Explorer Academy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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"Cruz Coronado sets sail for the shores of Iceland and Norway aboard the Explorer Academy ship to continue his studies at sea. But, things take a turn while exploring the icy north, when he embarks on a dangerous mission to uncover the first piece of an important puzzle his mother left behind"--
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Far from altering or omitting facts, The Gates of the Mountains raises them ro their highest imaginative power, The racing tale first spellbinds then kidnaps the reader, carrying his spirits away on the rush of real history. It is only when the great journey is done, the far shores of its dangerous voyage reached at last, that the reader understands the full gifts of the master storyteller at work with myth and history-- Book Jacket
40) Big sister Dora!
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Dora the explorer volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Dora's mother is having twins, and Dora can't wait to be their big sister.