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1) Vikings
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Between the 8th and 11th-centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to 'go-a-viking' meant to go on an adventure — to seek wealth and fame. Vikings would take to the sea in a long ship, sometimes for a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both. Explorers and traders, warriors and poets, they ranged between Byzantium in the south and Iceland, and even North...
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Enthralling, well-documented, and vivid account by a leading authority on the subject chronicles the activities of those bold sea raiders of the North who terrorized Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries. Abundantly illustrated, the volume will be invaluable to scholars and students of Nordic history. 12 plates and 40 black-and-white illustrations.
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"The story of the Norse is a Viking adventure in history. The Norse saga began with the first ancient tribes of Norsemen during the Early Nordic Stone Age. The beginning of the Nordic Ax Culture when primitive Norsemen created their first battle axes from stone. The evolution of an innovative and progressive culture that groomed legendary warriors whose voices still roar out today. Take a journey into the Age of Viking Expansion where Ragnar Lothbrok,...
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In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until only one realm remained. Suddenly the fate of all England--and the course of history--depended upon one man, one king.
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How to train your dragon volume 11
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"Hiccup is in hiding in the Murderous Mountains with the Company of the Dragonmark, but he is determined to become King of the Wilderwest by defeating the witch's Vampire Spydragons and steal back the King's Things from Alvin the Treacherous"--
6) Vikings
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about vikings. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 15
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
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How to train your dragon volume 8
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IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Hiccup, stranded with Toothless on the Beach of the Broken Heart and being hunted by an old enemy, faces Ug the Uglithug, Berserks, and Scarers and tries to save Fishlegs from the Beast.
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How to train your dragon volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search of a pirate's treasure.
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This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local clan chiefs and the silent fall of great distant empires. Out of the mists of the past it sweeps forward eight hundred years, to the lonely death of the last of the Beothuk.
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"Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a man of his word. An oath bound him to King Alfred. An oath bound him to AEthelflAEd. And now an oath will wrench him away from the ancestral home he fought so hard to regain. For Uhtred has sworn that on King Edward's death, he will kill two men. And now Edward is dying. A violent attack drives Uhtred south with a small band of warriors, and headlong into the battle for kingship. Plunged into a world of shifting alliances...
13) Viking heat
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When psychologist Joy Nelson, who was training for the women's Navy SEALs program, finds herself catapulted back in time, she is auctioned off as a slave to a Viking warlord, who offers her freedom in exchange for sexual favors.
14) Foxmask
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Saga of the Light Isles volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 35
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Foxmask is a book of a fantasy duet from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic.
The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society...
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Geronimo Stilton. Micekings volume 6
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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When one of the helmets in Sven the Shouter's private collection is stolen, the micekings find their investigation complicated when the dragons attack.
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How many female Viking warriors does it take to make a fact? When archaeologist Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson discovers that the bones contained in the most significant Viking warrior grave ever opened are in fact female, she and her team upend centuries of historically accepted conclusions and ignite a furious debate around the reality of female Viking warriors and the role of gender in both ancient and modern times. In The Bones of Birka, author...
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Abby Beckett comes from a long line of elite Viking warriors known as the Aesir, being trained her whole life to hunt the creatures known as Grendels. The problem is there hasn't been a sighting of a Grendel in centuries and the Viking Councel wants to disband the Aesir. But when her father is attacked by one and no one believes her, Abby embarks on a journey to protect her family's name and stop the plot to destroy the Aesir
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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While the other Vikings love to holler and howl and battle and brawl, Leif prefers spending time by himself atop the beautiful fjord. But when it's time for the Viking Games, everyone must participate. Will Leif let down his clan . . . or surprise them? Highlighting the value of nature and earthly wonders, best-selling author Laura Gehl teams up with illustrator Timothy Banks to remind readers to stay true to themselves and to look at things from...
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Geronimo Stilton. Micekings volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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When they receive a damaged message in a bottle from the Oofa Oofa rodents in the ancient far north, Geronimo Stiltonord and the micekings set sail to Oofadale but are attacked by a band of dragons while on their voyage.
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