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1) Jason's gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Journey
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English
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In 1897, four aristocratic Englishmen and their Irish servant set off for the Klondike gold fields. But their misguided sense of patriotims causes them to scorn the easy path on American territory in favor of a route which passes through British territory, and is by far the most treacherous path.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn't even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until...
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English
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One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
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Series
House of Winslow volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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When Cass promises a dying man that he will take the man's daughter with him to search for gold in the Yukon and share whatever gold found, Cass and Serena discover the hardship of the gold fields.
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English
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Can Olivia survive the crime and Gold Rush fever of 1849...and the countless marriage proposals? A series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. The Daughters of the Mayflower series continues when Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother's restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she receives at least twenty marriage proposals a day, she will...
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English
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"It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes...
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English
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On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off...
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English
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"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
11) Monsoon
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English
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"The sun went down behind the storm clouds, and stained them with its blood, then the rain fell upon the ship in torrents. Solid sheets of water hammered the wooden decks so hard that the din drowned the men's voices and blotted out their vision." They leave as brothers. They must return as men. Famed sailor Hal Courtney is now a man of land and family. But when the King orders him to sail to Madagascar and stop the pirates responsible for looting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
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In one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition. This mighty epic is a fitting tribute to the wisdom and courage of Ann Rogers Clark, her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
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Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
In the 12th Century, a Welsh prince and his band of men sail to America where they intermarry with Indian women to form a colony. The novel chronicles the colony's rise and fall, including the fate of its descendants, an Indian tribe near the Ohio River whose members have flaxen hair and grey-blue eyes. A story based on a Welsh legend.
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Series
Dog chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Leo is a hardened old sea dog who knows not to trust anyone but himself after four ocean voyages. But when he sets sail with Magellan on a journey to find a westward route to the Spice Islands, he develops new friendships as they experience hunger and thirst, storms and doldrums, and mutinies and hostile, violent encounters. Will they ever find safe passage?"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Exhibiting wit and extraordinary insight, Caroline Alexander sheds fresh light on Sir Ernest Shackleton's well-documented 1914 expedition to Antarctica, in which no human life was lost. From actual journals kept by the explorers, she creates a marvelous diary of the expedition, written from the viewpoint of a world-weary cat.
As the Endurance prepares to sail, the shipwright's curious tomcat hides deep within the hold. When crew members discover...
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Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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"Following the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson sends Meriweather Lewis and William Clark to explore the newly acquired territory. To survive, the two captains need an extraordinary hunter who will be able to provide the expedition with fresh game, and a sign-talker to communicate with the native tribes. They choose George Drouillard." -- back cover.
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