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The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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Restless explorer Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast, unmapped wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the rugged frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
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"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...
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Library mouse books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.
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"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back ... Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
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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.
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"In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
8) Gorilla City
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Amazing adventures of Charlie Small volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Purports to be the journal of eight-year-old boy explorer, Charlie Small, who has, miraculously, lived for over four hundred years, travelling the earth, fighting giant crocodiles, learning to speak with gorillas, and trying to find a way to return home.
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 10
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Geronimo, broken-hearted after a failed romance, sets out with his family to explore the Eighth Wonder of the Mouse World.
12) Captured by love
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Michigan brides collection volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"On occupied Mackinac Island, Voyageur Pierre Durant and local girl Angelique Labelle must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they will risk for love"--
13) Off I go!
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Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told in rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her super powers to explore the world, whether it is visiting penguins with her brother in Antarctica, or taking her timid pug Sir Noodles on a vacation in a rain forest.
14) I am an explorer
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Pub. Date
c 1990
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During a trip to the park, a child explores a cave, a mountain, a jungle, and a desert.
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Explorer Academy volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
On an island nation in the Indian Ocean, the explorers venture through a vast underwater world and take part in a friendly robotics competition. But the tides of good fortune change quickly. Suddenly, Team Cousteau jumps into action to rescue a faculty member from the brink of death. Meanwhile, the team follows the Cruz's mother's clues to a magnificent tomb and center of spirituality precariously perched on the side of a cliff. There, Cruz is confronted...
17) 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: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old riverman, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesn't imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory--beyond chasing down rats. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make history. Lewis is just setting off on his landmark search for the Northwest Passage, and he takes Seaman along. Sharing the curiosity and strength of spirit of his new master,...
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Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 9
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo, Benjamin, Trap, Petunia, and Bugsy Wugsy, go back in time to Germany in the 1400s to stop the pirate cats from sabotaging the workshop of Gutenberg - the inventor of the printing press.
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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!