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1) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots.Kidnapped is set around...
2) Cetaganda
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Miles Vorkosigan and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda on a diplomatic mission, but get in trouble when Miles tries to discover the truth about the death of the empress's attendant and Ivan gets involved with a few too many women.
3) Flood tide
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 32
Description
The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in "Flood Tide" is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why...
4) The wreckers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Agent Dirk Pitt of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency battles genetically engineered neo-Nazis, seeking to establish a Fourth Reich once they wipe out humanity. They plan to unleash a flood by splitting the Antarctic ice shelf. A beautiful archeologist is on hand to help the hero.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
It was splashed across every newspaper in 1999 a woman doctor in Antarctica finds a lump in her breast and after performing her own biopsy realizes that she has a particularly aggressive form of cancer. But no planes can land at her site during the long winter months, and she must administer her own chemotherapy. That woman was Nielsen, and this is her story of her battle with cancer and the extreme conditions of the South Pole.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Formats
Description
After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Description
After NUMA hero Dirk Pitt's daughter, a marine biologist, discovers an ancient artifact off the coast of Nicaragua, the sea crew and a floating resort hotel find themselves in the path of a terrible storm and someone's dangerous designs.
10) The Wee Free Men
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 2
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
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Description
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men; but when the two of them investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.
12) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
An enzyme that prolongs life has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in an area known as Lost City. But why are all those connected with it getting killed? including the people attempting to harvest it, the scientists stationed in a remote Greek laboratory who have been disappearing one by one and what does the body found frozen in the Alps have to do with this? To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger a polar shift, but then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now the leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world's industrialized nations a jolt, before reversing the shift back again. The only problem is it cannot be reversed. Austin, Zavala, and the NUMA Special Assignments Team have faced dire situations before, but never anything...
15) Skeleton Coast
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 4
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship 'Oregon' intercept a mayday signal from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Responding, they save Sloane Macintyre, who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. What surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. The journey that follows leads to a far...
16) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
Pub. Date
p2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Genghis Khan once ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great's: an expanse that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. When Dirk Pitt tracks down a missing survey team who disappears from Siberia under questionable circumstances, he discovers a mysterious mogul who is wreaking havoc on Middle East oil export facilities. The Mongolian dreams of restoring the conquests of ancient Mongolia, and holds a dark secret about...
17) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
18) The navigator
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave. What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders....
20) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...