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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This grand old childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with humor and wisdom that appeal to readers of every age. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court.
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Harvard Classics volume ( 28 )
Tantor unabridged classics
The Natural history library volume N16
Great adventures
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Tantor unabridged classics
The Natural history library volume N16
Great adventures
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Description
Charles Darwin chronicles the five years he spent early in his career aboard the survey ship HMS "Beagle," exploring the Southern Hemisphere, including Brazilian rain forests, the Andes, and the Gal�pagos Islands.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.' So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Description
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The reader is taken aboard a space cruiser to research two different planets and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to forty-two possible endings.
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 13
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
You and a friend are going to search for the abominable snowman, but your friend disappears. How will you find him?
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 20
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The reader chooses which clues he wants to follow to search for the jewels of Nabooti.
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 24
Pub. Date
c2005
Lexile measure
620L
Description
You are a young doctor specializing in halting epidemics, and you go to the Amazon to find a mysterious cure.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Can you solve the myster of Ura Senke? A priceless tea bowl has been stolen from Ura Senke, thewell-known tea ceremony school in Japan. You volunteer to help your friends find it--but before you can start, you're kidnapped by the Yakuza, a vicious Japanese gang. You're thrown into a room with a gun-toting guard, and it looks as if there's no escape. But the guard falls asleep.
13) Sahara: a novel
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Dr. Rojas and Dirk Pitt are in Africa investigating different things, but are thrown together to save the world from environmental catastrophe.
16) Inca gold
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
When Dirk Pitt saves a group of archaeologists from drowning, he finds himself caught up in a smuggling ring searching for lost Inca treasure.
17) Behind the wheel
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 121
Pub. Date
2010, c1992
Description
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a gambling syndicate tries to influence the outcome of a Swiss auto race.
19) Shock wave
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Dirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency leads a team to the Antarctic to find out why dolphins and seals are disappearing from around Seymour Island. This brings him in conflict with a mining company which is using deadly sound waves to drill for diamonds. But it also brings romance with the villain's beautiful daughter.
20) Flood tide
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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...