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2) Ghost canoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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900L
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure. After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach,...
3) Jason's gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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860L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Jason embarks on a ten thousand-mile journey in 1897 in hopes of striking it rich after hearing the news that gold has been discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory.
4) City of gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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The race to uncover history’s greatest lost fortune begins in a breathtaking conspiracy thriller from the author of The Alexander Cipher. To the victor go the spoils . . .
Historian Carmen Nero, in southern Italy to help a friend search for ancient riches, is caught up in the murderous schemes of the Calabrian Mafia.
Cesco Rossi, a quick-witted conman on the run from a...
Historian Carmen Nero, in southern Italy to help a friend search for ancient riches, is caught up in the murderous schemes of the Calabrian Mafia.
Cesco Rossi, a quick-witted conman on the run from a...
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2020
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English
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Above Naples, Vesuvius is heating up once again . . . An absolutely gripping thriller from the author of The Sacred Spoils and The Alexander Cipher.
Archaeologist Carmen Nero and former conman Cesco Rossi are in Herculaneum on the trail of the lost texts of Ancient Rome, possibly stored deep underground in the Villa of the Papyri.
But when there is a terrible murder, they realize that powerful forces are interested in the excavations of...
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2017
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English
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An original never-before-seen Barker and Llewelyn short story: includes 7 FREE CHAPTERS of OLD SCORES, the next installment in the adventures of Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn.
Cyrus Barker, the most prominent and accomplished private enquiry agent in 19th century London, faces what might be the most dastardly crime of his career: his personal tobacconist has been murdered, his body found in his own humidor!
Now Cyrus Barker, with
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Apaches on the warpath! Raping and pillaging, torturing and killing! Ever since he had been their prisoner, Lt. Tim O'Hagen had been driven by his hatred for these savages. And now they had taken his woman! O'Hagen swore to get them - even if it meant battling them all the way to hell and back again.
9) Full service
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
10) Fagin the Jew
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Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's Fagin! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian literature as his gorgeous brushwork creates an evocative portrait of the era. Now with Eisner's previously unused full-color cover art! Foreword by...
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Amos GettingA Life on the American FrontierBorn in 1819 at Fort Union in Dakota Territory to a Cree Mother and French Trapper Father, Amos is sent to live with the Brule Sioux at his Mother's death. When he is thirteen, he leaves his Brule Family to begin a Spirit Quest journey that leads him to a life among White men. As he grows to adulthood, Amos is befriended by a White Rancher who raises the boy as his own, and he witnesses the early days on...
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The history of the frothy beverage in Connecticut dates back to early colonists, who used it to quench their thirst in the absence of clean drinking water. So integral was beer to daily life in the colony that government officials and militiamen congregated in taverns like the General Wolfe to talk laws and business over pints of ale. Over the next two centuries, the number of breweries rose and then declined, especially after Prohibition. It was...
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Florida is one of the most visited places in the world, and one of its most visited cities is St. Petersburg. But there's a lot more to the "Sunshine City" than pristine beaches. During his travels to sunny St. Pete, James Brown discovered local jazz artist LeRoy Flemmings Jr. Doc Webb's World's Most Unusual Drug Store attracted customers and spectators from afar. Babe Ruth's longest home run ever was launched from the city. William Straub had a great...
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Life on the frontier is always hard and often dangerous. Micah and Scott Hite return home to find their ranch reduced to smoldering ruins, their brother murdered. Life become more dangerous, and weirder, when the culprits return and they realize that they're dealing with the restless dead--and that is no accident...
16) Sisters
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Sarah had everything except the one thing she longed for the most. Then one day, when she was least expecting it, she found what she had always wanted. A story of love, compassion and humanity from the not-too-distant past aimed at children of today to give us hope for the future.
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A lost goldmine... a forgotten ghost town... a terrifying creature!
"Alaska is a huge place. Easy for a man to get lost and never be seen again." These words ring in 12-year-old Brock Ford's ears as he embarks for the frozen north with his uncle, world-famous anthropologist Dirk Armstrong. But it's not long before Brock and his new Inuit friends Tanaraq and Kalli put that warning to the test. From a ghost-town saloon with a cryptic message scrawled...
18) The Mummy's Tomb
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Across the sea... Over the desert sand... And into the tomb of a missing mummy!
When 12-year-old Brock Ford joins his anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong on an expedition to Egypt, he never imagines he'll be shipwrecked at sea and thrust into an international mystery before he sees his first pyramid. But ancient curses and missing mummies are nothing compared to the real-life dangers that lurk in the dead of the desert night after a hidden tomb is...
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A legendary treasure... a secret palace... one big adventure!
When 12-year-old Brock Ford is invited to Africa with his globe-trotting anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong, he jumps at the chance to ditch his boring hometown to spend the summer on safari among wild animals and friendly natives. But Brock and Dirk are barely off the train in Nairobi when mysterious artifacts begin to surface which indicate the legend of an ancient lost treasure may...
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An American solider of German heritage finds himself on the wrong side of World War II in this sweeping epic. This war story is, at its heart, an anti-war story and a story about universal human nature in the hellhole of war. Also includes a new final chapter drawn by Wayne Vansant and a new historical essay by Stephen R. Bissette about the series.