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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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Discusses the discovery and escavation of King Tutankhamen's tomb and the myth of the curse that seemed to afflict those involved in the tomb's exploration. In graphic novel format, tells of the mystery surrounding the search for the tomb and treasures of King Tutankhamen, the mummy's curse, and the illnesses of archeologists who have explored Egyptian tombs.
10) The Donner Party
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Uses a graphic format to describe the experience of the Donner Party, and focuses on the terrible winter of 1846-1847 during which the pioneers were forced to eat the dead to survive while trapped in the mountains.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an account of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 in which over thirty people died when the giant airship caught fire while landing in New Jersey after a three day flight from Germany. Presented in graphic novel form.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Presents a short history of the Continental Army's desperate winter at Valley Forge in 1777 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the events leading up to that fateful encampment and Washington's struggle to keep his army together.