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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. Morgan le Fay will make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if only they can solve four riddles -- which will take four books, of course! Dolphins at Daybreak begins the third set of four books in this magical (and increasingly popular) series! Jack and Annie are off in the Magic...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Prompted by disturbing reports of an enormous sea monster, marine biologist Pierre Aronnax joins an expedition to find and destroy it. After barely surviving an attack on the creature, the voyagers discover that their quarry is in fact a remarkably advanced submarine, the Nautilus. Its creator, Captain Nemo, is driven by a thirst for knowledge and by a hatred of civilization ; and he refuses to let his guest's leave. As Aronnax and his companions...
3) Submarines
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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"From the early human-powered submarines of the American Civil War to the U-boats of both world wars and the modern nuclear-powered missile platforms of the Cold War, twelve dioramic scenes reveal how submarines have become one of the most dangerous weapons of war."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to dive deep under the sea? Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about living and working deep under the surface of the ocean--a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress. Submarines and Submersibles is a beautifully designed reader all about life and work under water. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using...
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English
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Marine architect Hannah Bryson was hired to inspect a decommissioned Soviet submarine, Silent Thunder, that was recently purchased by the U.S. government for use as a maritime museum. Before she and her brother can sort out a cryptic mssage discovered behind one of the ship's panels, there's a deadly assault on the sub, and Connor is killed. Though the government tries to warn Hannah away from the danger, she'll stop at nothing to find the ruthless...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist and a neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter both want to find the sub first, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires.
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Armed with stolen U. S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III--a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U. S. fleet, the 9, 000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf,...
10) Submarine
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Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated introduction to submarines, explaining what they are, how they work, the history of their development, weapons systems, and their use in war and scientific research, and includes a description of what it is like to live aboard a submarine, as well as a look at submarine disasters.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
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In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
12) Black wind
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
13) Arctic gambit
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 6
Language
English
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Description
"Jerry Mitchell, commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, grieves when USS Toledo is sunk just outside of Russian territorial waters. His best friend was its captain. But there's a larger game afoot: Russian engineers have modified a torpedo into a stealthy first-strike weapon that would allow their country to launch a nuclear decapitation strike on the United States. The new Russian president has plans for Europe and is more than willing...
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English
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Three men in search of a giant sea monster suddenly discover that their monster is really a remarkable steel-plated submarine. Taken prisoners by the mysterious Captain Nemo, they begin a series of exciting adventures that take them 20,000 leagues under the oceans of the world.
15) Black Sea
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
A submarine captain takes a job to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine that is rumored to be filled with gold.
16) The grim grotto
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach an important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in an old submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of a sugar bowl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
18) Kilo class
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The U.S., Russia, and China become involved in a deadly stand-off in 2003 when Russia accepts an order from the Chinese government for ten Kilo Class submarines with which they plan to block the U.S. out of the Taiwan Strait and then reclaim, by military force if necessary, the independent island of Taiwan.
19) Infernal devices
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Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 3
Mortal engines quartet volume 03
Mortal engines quartet volume 3
Mortal engines quartet volume 03
Mortal engines quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
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