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2) Explorer
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Looks at the worlds of Amelia Earhart, Jacques Cousteau, Marco Polo and other famous explorers, sharing real-life photographs of their equipment and personal possessions as well as objects they found.
Author
Series
London explorers volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seth Mayhew is the ideal explorer: fearless, profitable, and unmarried. There is nothing and no one he can't find--until his sister disappears en route to India. His search for her takes him to Bombay, where Seth meets the most unlikely of allies--a vulnerable woman who's about to marry the wrong man. --Publisher
4) Explorers
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of exploration, from explorers in ancient times to the discovery and exploration of Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, Antarctica, and outer space.
5) Lift
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning and bestselling creators of Drawn Together comes the fantastic tale of a magical elevator that will lift your spirits--and press all the right buttons! Iris loves to push the elevator buttons in her apartment building, but when it's time to share the fun with a new member of the family, she's pretty put out. That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up entire realms of possibility, places where she...
Author
Publisher
DK, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the stories of explorers -- the most ancient to the modern day -- from the deepest depths of the ocean to the highest mountains in the world. In this book you'll find true stories about Marco Polo's Silk Road, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's conquest of Everest, and Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's trip to the moon, and much more. Learn all about the explorers who discovered the unknown and made the world the place we know today"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and...
11) Leif the Lucky
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Leif the Lucky, son of Erik the Red, who sailed with his father to Greenland and who later sailed farther west and found America.
13) 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.
15) The explorer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
19) The fountain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to 16th century Europe and America where Tomas is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic; to the present day where Tom is a doctor...
20) Moana's big leap
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is eight-year-old Moana's first time participating in the Tiale celebration--a festival that occurs every ten years and honors a brave female ancestor. Thanks to determination and coaching from her mother, Moana competes in the cliff diving competition!"--
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