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1) Ice wreck
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew who never made it to the South Pole because of terrible conditions but were saved by his determination and courage.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells the true story of the amazing dinosaur discovery of the first T-Rex in the Montana Badlands in the early 1900s after paleontologist Barnum Brown was given a hand-drawn map, dug up the teeth of the unknown creature, and kicked off a race to find its skeletal remains.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This compilation of some of history's most enthralling discoveries draws readers into a world of mystery, intrigue, and adventure. In lavish color and inky shadows, readers pursue a trail of investigation that leads to discoveries from King Tut's tomb to the terracotta army of China.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discovering new places on Earth has tested the will of many explorers who have set out, hoping for adventure and glory. However these discoveries were the resulst of months at sea and often dangerous voyages. Slowly unexplored places became fewer. So explorers turned to the coldest parts of the Earth.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Martha Gellhorn was one of the world’s greatest war correspondents, travelling to hotspots to report on conflicts including the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israeli wars. She wrote for Collier’s magazine, which could only send one journalist to cover the invasion of France in June 1944. When Ernest Hemingway – Gellhorn’s estranged husband and the most famous writer in the world – offered his services, they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An account of General George Washington's Revolutionary War leadership of the Culper Ring spy network describes how his team used secret names, codes, invisible ink and other measures to collect and share important information.
14) Gorilla City
Author
Series
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.