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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
Author
Series
Maximum ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
4) White-out
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of a 1942 World War II mission to the Antarctic shares his extraordinary story of survival after a German U-boat nearly destroyed their encampment.
5) Antarctica!
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
You're about to board a helicopter back to your research site in Antarctica, when you receive word that one of your colleagues has gone missing. Antarctica is no place to spend the night in a snowstorm. But your latest STEM experiment--over a year's work--will be ruined if you don't get back soon! Which adventure do you choose?
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 40
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
9) Dark winter
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six rugged adventurers become trapped for the winter at an Antarctic outpost, as a team of scientists must battle extreme conditions and subdue internal conflict to catch a killer among them.
10) Dead men
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with the 1912 death of Robert Scott in Antarctica, Birdie Bowers collapses on her way to view relics from Scott's expedition and is rescued by computer expert Adam, who falls in love with her and agrees to join a precarious trek to the Antarctic.
11) Ice station
Author
Series
Shane Schofield novel volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On the edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself..."--Back cover.
12) Black ice
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Having made a discovery of significance beneath the Antarctic ice cap, scientist Lauren Burgess rescues two explorers trapped on the ice only to find her science team targeted by one of the explorers, who has gone mad from isolation.
14) Shock wave
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt investigates an international diamond cartel, and the strange deaths of Antarctic marine animals.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is only at the end of the world--among the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters of Antarctica--where Deb Gardner and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For the few blissful weeks they spend each year studying the habits of emperor and Adélie penguins, Deb and Keller can escape the frustrations and sorrows of their separate lives and find solace in their work and in each other. But Antarctica, like their fleeting romance, is tenuous,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.
17) The ice limit
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite,...
18) The sign
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 18
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world...
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