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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power. When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the...
2) The sea wolf
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
3) Icebound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave. A tidal wave breaks loose the ice under which a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight, and one of the team is "an assassin with a mission of his own.
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English
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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,...
5) White heat
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Series
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English
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Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the elders who rule her isolated community on Ellesmere Island. When a man is shot and killed while out on an "authentic" Arctic adventure under her watch, the murder attracts the attention of police sergeant Derek Palliser. As Edie sets out to discover what those tourists were really after, she is shocked...
6) Iceberg
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Crawling into the heart of an iceberg, Dirk Pitt discovers the charred remains of a lost luxury yacht, its crew, and its owner, an icelandic mining magnate. Missing is its secret, priceless cargo..."
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Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of dark matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Language
English
Description
Overview: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including...
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Mr. Popper's Penguins volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Long after Mr. Popper found his famous penguins a proper home, his distant relatives, Nina and Joel, move to a new house with their mother and find mysterious eggs in the basement.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1845, young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an Arctic expedition to find the remains of the by-now-extinct great auk, a large, flightless bird of mythical status, and is trapped on a hunting ship where the crew and passengers are not what they seem.
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English
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Akuluk is not excited about visiting her grandparents in Nunavut. She would rather head south for summer vacation, somewhere with roller coasters and cotton candy. There can't be much to do way up there, Akuluk figures. But as soon as she steps off the plane and sees all the exciting animals that the tundra has to offer, Akuluk forgets all about her dreams of going south. On her first full day in Nunavut, she can't wait to travel out on the land with...
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Animal Rescue Agency volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When an animal is in trouble, there's only one place to turn: the Animal Rescue Agency! Dashing Esquire Fox used to organize the world's most elaborate chicken raids until the day she encountered Mr. Pepper. Meeting the blustery old rooster changed her heart, convincing her to turn from a life of crime and instead form the Animal Rescue Agency, which masterminds rescue operations across the globe. Esquire and her unlikely chicken business manager...
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English
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In his lifetime Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist who was better known for his offbeat scientific adventures than for his now famous theory of continental drift. In this lushly imagined and beautifully written novel, Clare Dudman charts his life from his 1880 birth to his last daring Arctic exploration in 1930. Dudman vividly chronicles the key episodes that punctuated his life, such as his 1906 record-setting long-distance balloon flight;...
14) The North water
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English
Description
"Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage. In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths...
15) Horizon
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
16) Arctic drift
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
17) Never cry wolf
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Description
Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways.
18) Ordinary wolves
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness.
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting,...
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English
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Peter Nichols' novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on best-seller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing combination of high-seas adventure and human folly. It is also filled with authentic detail, since Nichols is an experienced sailor who has made a solo journey across the Atlantic. Carl Schenck is fabulously wealthy, but he aspires to be a great...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
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