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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The 399-page guidebook features 70 select lakes and 35 streams that are publicly accessible to canoeists and kayakers in the Hoosier state. This comprehensive guide to Indiana's bodies of water features black and white photos, carefully crafted access maps along with a capsule listing topographic maps, nearby communities, stream distance, number of trips, level of difficulty, hazards, portages, further information sources, gamefish species, camping...
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English
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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"The friends have to discover what is annoying both of them when Catina chatters during their canoe ride when Houndsley wants to enjoy the sounds of nature, and Houndsley balks at going on a bike ride with Catina"--
6) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline"--Title verso page.
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Language
English
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"On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie's father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous...
8) Up the creek
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Series
Life in the wild volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
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A bear, a moose, and a beaver who are best friends, but often disagree, have a trying adventure when they decide to take a canoe trip together.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Youngsters learn fundamental points of geography in this tale of Paddle-to-the-Sea, a figurine of a little person in a canoe carved by an Indian boy to follow his course through different waterways to the ocean.
10) River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City. Includes a note on the history of the Hudson River.
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English
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A recreational canoe man in his native Texas, Rick Sparkman thought he knew all about the sport when he moved to Nova Scotia in 1981. The swift, cold rivers and streams of his new home adjusted his thinking in the most personal way: he got dumped. That's when he started learning to paddle in earnest. Woodlands Canoeing explains the fundamentals of recreational canoeing in the woods of the Maritimes, New England, and anywhere else where the waterways...
14) Canoeing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
"Engaging images accompany information about canoeing. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Kayaking and canoeing are among the most exciting ways to explore a river or a lake. This book will give students all the information that they need to plan their very own outdoor kayaking or canoeing adventure, from tips on gear to step-by-step instructions for maneuvering their craft.
16) Go paddling!
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English
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"What's better than a day out on the lake? Grab a paddle, your life jacket and your favorite kayak or canoe. Then, follow along with Rory Racoon as you learn all about paddling in the great outdoors" --
17) Canoeing
Author
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
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Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to canoeing. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
18) Deliverance
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English
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The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
20) Destroyer angel
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English
Description
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation-an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah,...
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