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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beauregard has always had big dreams. He wanted to travel the world and see all the sites, but how could he possibly go around the globe if he was too scared to fly? With the help of one cardboard box and some amazing new friends, Beauregard goes on the adventure of a lifetime and realizes he is actually pretty brave after all!
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
285 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
319 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
8) Blue water
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nellie Bly mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attempting to beat Jules Verne's round-the-world record, Victorian Age reporter Nellie Bly hides from official records the secret details about a mysterious death in the bustling harbor city of Port Said where she is targeted by a killer and embroiled in an international plot.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1519, after the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old Mateo Macias becomes cabin boy to Ferdinand Magellan on a dangerous journey in search of a route to the fabled Spice Islands.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
119 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the news that his doctor is giving him only one month to live, fifty-year-old Ambrose Zephyr and his loving wife, Zipper, embark on a whirlwind tour from A to Z of all the places he has ever loved or has ever wanted to visit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the many adventures of English gentleman Phileas Fogg as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
204 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the role of one of the crew members sailing a yacht around the world, the reader will encounter dangers and must make decisions that will ensure the survival of the ship and her crew.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xii, 243 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the journal of a paleozoologist who departed England in 1850 on a journey around the world seeking to learn the ways and fates of the most ancient creatures, accompanied by a strange pet, Gibear, and with the chiding voice of his mother often in his ear.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Language
English
Description
"While looking at an old photo album with Esmé and Tate, Grandad finds a photo of the children's long-lost cousins. They're scattered all across the globe--and they're the perfect excuse for Grandad and the children to go on a wonderful adventure! By steamship and airplane, camel and train, the trio journeys from ice landscapes to vivid jungels to bustling cities. But finding the lost cousins is harder than it sounds." --back cover.
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
37 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fictionalized diary from the youngest crew member, a sailor boy named Nick, aboard the British vessel Endeavour in 1768 recounts the events and adventures experienced by the sailors under the command of Captain James Cook.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leo is a hardened old sea dog who knows not to trust anyone but himself after four ocean voyages. But when he sets sail with Magellan on a journey to find a westward route to the Spice Islands, he develops new friendships as they experience hunger and thirst, storms and doldrums, and mutinies and hostile, violent encounters. Will they ever find safe passage?"--
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