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21) Dora loves Boots
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Valentine's Day Dora and Boots pick a favorite place and set out to meet there with Map's help, but they also need help from readers. Includes a picnic maze.
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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
Description
Geronimo, broken-hearted after a failed romance, sets out with his family to explore the Eighth Wonder of the Mouse World.
24) The double helix
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Series
Explorer Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As Cruz and his friends continue to search for the third piece of the cipher, a mysterious message arrives suggesting that someone close to him is working for Nebula, leaving Cruz unsure of who he can trust.
25) The Doldrums
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Series
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.
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Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
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...
28) The high hills
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Brambly Hedge volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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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"She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist - the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she...
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Dora the explorer volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dora and Boots climb Star Mountain in search of the necklace her grandmother gave her.
32) 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.
33) 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
Description
"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
Description
"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
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Courtney novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure. Tom Courtney, one of four sons of master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, once again sets sail on a treacherous journey that will...
40) Journey to Juno
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Galaxy Zack volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On the planet Nebulon in 2120, Zack joins his school's Explorer's Club and visits Juno, a planet made of crystals, but he is less than thrilled when he is partnered with the class bully.