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1) Serpent
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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870L
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English
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Underwater divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala battle a secret Spanish brotherhood which is plotting to regain Spanish territory taken by the U.S. The action ranges from the decks of a sunken passenger liner in the Atlantic to an underwater Mayan temple. By the author of Flood Tide.
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Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska's Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming. Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave,...
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Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
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Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to believe that the greatest prize of all-Narmer's crown-might be buried with him. No crown of an Egyptian...
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Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
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[2016]
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Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
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Alien agent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Young alien agent Zack joins an archaeological dig in Mongolia to ensure that there is no trouble from the dinosaur-like scientists from Vraj's home planet who are on a similar dig nearby.
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"A series of archeological expeditions unfolds through time, each one looking for the ruins of a fabled underground city-state that once flourished in a remote province near the border of present-day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Sealed off for centuries by seismic activity, Suolucidir beckons with the promise of plunder and the glory of discovery, fantasies as varied as the imaginations of her aspiring modern-day conquerors. As the tumult of the...
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In the treacherous waters off the rugged Sicilian coast, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces commandos make a shocking find while searching for the legendary shipwreck of the apostle Paul. And when a second artifact is uncovered in the ruins of a buried city, Jack is on the verge of a discovery that could shake the world to its foundations: the handwritten words of Jesus Christ himself.
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Michael Crichton volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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Jack Howard novels volume 4
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Two ancient cultures, a lost treasure from the distant past: what powerful secrets does it conceal—and how far will some go to possess them? Dive into a new full-throttle hunt from master of the action-adventure thriller David Gibbins, as he unleashes…
The trail starts in the Roman ruins and leads to a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt. Soon the world’s top marine archaeologist, Jack Howard, and his team of scientific...
The trail starts in the Roman ruins and leads to a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt. Soon the world’s top marine archaeologist, Jack Howard, and his team of scientific...
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Case file 13 volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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"The three Monsterteers are off on a vacation to Mexico, where they join an archeological excavation of an abandoned--and haunted--Mayan pyramid"--
12) Old bones
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome historian, Clive Benton, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Clive tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
13) The lost pueblo
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Janey Endicott is a millionaire's daughter--a girl accustomed to living in the lap of luxury. Kidnapped from her soft life, Janey is forced to join the rigors of an archaeological expedition by adventurous Phillip Randolph. Though unaccustomed to the harsh realities facing her, Janey soon finds some solace in the unexpected thrill of a promising new love. But she finds plenty of trouble, too, in a vicious fight for her honor.
14) The dragon pearl
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2013.
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Two teenage boys accompanying their parents on an archaeological dig discover a dragon within a secret tomb.
16) Missing Brendan
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[2004]
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Three generations of the Calden family, including grandson Patrick, his father Bob and grandfather George, embark on a very difficult expedition across the world to Vietnam to fulfill a longtime wish of finding George's other son, Brendan, who has been MIA since the end of the war. Accompanied on their incredible journey by archeologist Julie Conroy, the family encounters much more than they ever expected.
17) Dangerous ground
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Fiona Carver volume 01
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[2021]
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Archaeologist Fiona Carver has unfinished business in the Aleutian Islands. After an emergency evacuation cut her first expedition short, she is finally back. But time is not on her side as she races to finish documenting the remnants of a prehistoric village, recover missing artifacts, and track down missing volcanologist Dylan Slater. Having bluffed his way onto Fiona's team with fake credentials, wildlife photographer Dean Slater is willing to...
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Young archaeologist Jack Hunter planned only to take a picture of a cuneiform tablet from once unsurpassed Mesopotamian metropolis Ugarit in present Syria, but is caught and has to steal it from a private museum in France. He refuses to join his mentor, professor Frederic 'Freddie' Shaffer, who believes the poem is a coded treasure map, on a relic hunt, until his friend is murdered to steal it. Obvious suspect is Syrian artifact trader Ali, so Jack...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Archaeologist Nina Kirov, attacked after making an astonishing discovery, teams up with Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater Marine Agency, to try and learn why archaeologists around the world are being brutally murdered, and together they discover an ancient secret that will challenge some of America's basic historical beliefs.
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[2019]
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Jack Hunter is abducted blindfolded to a Turkish US base to be recruited by the NSA, told his mentor was killed because Albert Littmann's Russian mob employer Doridanov want the ancient Osiris-weapon. He accepts to go look for the other part in Gizeh, where archaeologist Lena Halstrom has dug up a lead on a site which was attacked by mysterious, mythologically cloaked men, hence the Egyptian in charge, Said, shut it down till further notice. In fact...
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