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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1150L
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English
Description
This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover...
2) Beau Geste
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English
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A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence — the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the riddle of the desert massacre to another mystery, the long-ago and far-away theft of a sapphire known as the Blue Water. It was the scandalous disappearance...
3) Broken pride
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A lion cast out from his pride. An elephant who can read the bones of the dead. A baboon rebelling against his destiny. For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes, each with something to gain--and everything to lose.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, he is saved from certain death when he is adopted by a she-ape. Raised as one of her own, Tarzan learns the way of the Kerchak--the tribe of great apes who rule the jungle. They teach him how to survive, to hunt, to swing through the trees, and to communicate with the other animals of the jungle. By the time he is a young man Tarzan has the courage and strength of ten men. But it is his...
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Tarzan volume 10
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English
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Tarzan is captured by a strange band of women. He escapes with the help of a young boy and meets the antmen as he tries to get back to civilization.
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"The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Oathkeeper
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"At long last, the Great Herd is united against Titan--now so powerful that even Fearless, who vowed to avenge his father's death, cannot defeat the rogue lion alone. Thorn may have a plan to bring about Titan's downfall, but the animals of Bravelands must decide how much they are willing to risk--and who they are willing to lose"--WorldCat.
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
"As the new Great Father, the young baboon, Thorn, hopes to guide Bravelands to peace after a period of great turmoil. But a pack of rogue wolves lurks among the Great Herd, committing acts so evil they threaten to shatter that peace before it's even begun. The animals of the Great Herd must once again unite to defend...
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
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English
Description
"The Four Feathers is the story revolving around Harry Feversham, the son of a British general. He is haunted by both his family's remarkable history of service in the British army and the stories of cowardice that he had heard told as a boy during his father's annual 'Crimea Nights' reunions. Due to his fear of becoming a coward and staining his ancestors' reputation, Harry resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet...
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English
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"Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century. When he gets his heart broken by a sweetheart who doesn't appreciate his anachronistic tendencies, he...
13) The golden hour
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English
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Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties.
A remarkable thriller debut of twenty-first-century espionage, by a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State who knows where all the bodies are buried literally" (W. E. B. Griffin). "The...
14) Unholy land
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
16) Crocodile tears
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organizer, who realizes that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
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English
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British secret agent James Bond, with the rare doubleO pre x--the license to kill in the Secret Service-- didn't think his new assignment sounded too tough. Hewas merely to join an American gang, expose it, and wipe it out. He had always regarded American mobstersas perfumed bums in monogrammed shirts, nothing like the murder and torture experts of his old Russian enemy SMERSH. But that was before he encountered a particularly nasty United States...
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Tarzan volume 18
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English
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An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion Nkima are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the Leopard Men, led by Gato Mgungu. From America, a young woman arrives in the territory in search of a loved one presumed missing, and two young men (also from that country) come in search of ivory.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Grandmother's attacks on the creatures of Bravelands come to a head"--
Bravelands is in turmoil. With Thorn dead, the animals of the plains desperately search for the next Great Parent, a role Prance is afraid to fill. Chase hides in plain sight amidst Grandmother's most loyal creatures, praying that the terrible antidote she's discovered will continue to hold the snake's power over her at bay. And Bramble finds himself up against a foe he couldn't...
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First published in 1886-87, H. Rider Haggard's imperial romance follows its English heroes from the quiet rooms of Cambridge to the uncharted interior of Africa in search of a legendary lost city with an ageless white queen. The two men find their way to the ancient city of Kôr, where the beautiful and mysterious Ayesha, "she-who-must-be-obeyed," rules. Despite her cruelty, both men become fascinated by Ayesha, who leads them on a harrowing journey...
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