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1) Eclipse
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Language
English
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Lewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, darlings of the young republic, and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true.
Lewis and Clark: two great but very different men.
Plain-spoken William Clark, enjoys the triumphs and acclaim of the expedition, marries his childhood sweetheart, and settles in St. Louis as superintendent of the nation's...
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Wiki Coffin mysteries volume 1
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English
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The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists, and the sailors charged with getting them around the world, the "Ex. Ex." is finally underway, with much fanfare.
Aboard the convoy as ship's linguist is Wiki Coffin. Half New Zealand Maori and half...
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Geronimo, broken-hearted after a failed romance, sets out with his family to explore the Eighth Wonder of the Mouse World.
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Library mouse books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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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Explorer Academy volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Cruz Coronado leaves his home in Hawaii to study and travel with other young people invited to attend the elite Explorer Academy in Washington, D.C.
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Language
English
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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....
7) The doldrums
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Series
Doldrums volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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.
8) Neptune
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English
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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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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Description
When Yasmin's father explains to her about explorers and maps, Yasmin decides to make a map of her neighborhood and she brings it along on a trip to the farmers' market with her mother--but will the map help her when they are separated?
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
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Description
When Yasmin's father explains to her about explorers and maps, Yasmin decides to make a map of her neighborhood and she brings it along on a trip to the farmers' market with her mother--but will the map help her when they are separated?
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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The Thea sisters continue the search for the seven ancient treasures, using the clues found in Aurora Beatrix Lane's travel diary to find a fabulous emerald which once belonged to Cleopatra--a quest that leads them from Moscow, to the Sahara, and finally Bolivia.
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English
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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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Description
On summer vacation in Scotland, the Thea sisters are intrigued by a tapestry that is really a treasure map supposedly leading to a hidden alabaster garden where an ancient treasure is buried, and the story of Aurora Beatrix Lane, an adventurous explorer mouse--and when the tapestry is stolen they set out to find the treasure using the explorer's diary as a guide.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A bear and a boy who both love exploring learn to share their adventures together"--
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Series
Dora the explorer volume 19
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dora and Boots have to deliver a special crown and shoes to her cousin Daisy for her fifteenth birthday party--her fiesta de quincean?era.
18) Jubal Sackett
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Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accidental adventures volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
355 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother.
20) The winter pony
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
246 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
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