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1) Journey
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
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1250L
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English
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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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1010L
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Call of the wild: 'Mush on!' Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he'd have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because of that Buck is kidnapped and dragged away from his sunny home to become a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing North. With strength, imagination and cunning on his side Buck must fight for survival. But will he ever trust Man again?
White Fang: The adventures in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
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English
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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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A wild race to claim a fortune in buried gold pits such adversaries as a kidnapped hostage, a gambler, a group of prison escapees, a hired detective, and the gold's rightful owner against each other on a dramatic Southern Pacific train ride bound for Los Angeles.
7) Snow angel
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"When Noah Wesley hears the faint sound outside the door of his remote Alaskan cabin during a violent nighttime blizzard, it is no less than the voice of God that urges him to take a closer look, to discover there his snow angel."--Cover.
8) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them. A constitution of iron and the vitality of the Wild were White Fang's inheritance, and he clung to life, the whole of him and every part of him, in spirit and in flesh, with the tenacity that of old belonged to all creatures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cuttthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease - or a dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those...
10) Fool's gold
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Dragon lords volume 1
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It's not easy to live in a world ruled by dragons. The taxes are high and their control is complete. But for one group of bold misfits, it's time to band together and steal back some of that wealth. No one said they were smart...
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One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez, brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop, into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold, and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist to werewolf.
13) The renegades
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Joining fellow troops to deliver aid to an earthquake-decimated region of Afghanistan, Air Force adviser Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold, confront a Taliban splinter group that is shooting aid workers and everyone who accepts help.
14) Gold mine
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North of Johannesburg, five companies share the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For some men, gold mining is a way of life and death. For some it is just a business. For one man, it is the most dangerous game of all. Rod Ironsides drives his miners faster and harder than anyone has ever dared. A few weeks ago, Ironsides had a passion for golf and one night stands. Now, he has been handed a prize and a curse,...
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When newly divorced Maggie Carter inherits a gold mine from the father she never knew, she leaves Houston and travels to the small town of Eureka, Colorado. There, she hopes to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when she was three. In Eureka, Maggie meets people who touch her life in different ways, bitter librarian Cassie Wynock, town mayor Lucille Theriot; and Jameso Clark, whose love-hate relationship with her father intrigues...
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"A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works... The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon Territory, is...
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Into the wilds of Natal in the 1860s are born Sean and Garrick Courtney, twin brothers who could not be more different. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is promise.
18) A civil issue
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"Towards the end of the Civil War a large number of gold payroll shipments from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line have mysteriously disappeared. In the confusion inherent to war, both sides think the other is to blame. But General Grant holds the quiet persuasion that an unknown third party has masterminded a plan to use the acquired funds for some purpose that poses a threat to the reunification of the Union. He secretly sends out a group of his...
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