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Tarzan volume 8
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In this 1921 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series, the ape man discovers a lost world of dinosaurs where his beloved Jane is being held captive.
When World War I broke out across the African colonies, an attack on Tarzan's estate led him to believe his wife Jane had been killed by Imperial German soldiers. But after a months-long rampage of vengeance, he learns she is in fact still alive-he only need find her. Before long, his search will...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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HL 490L
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The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by his son Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world...
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First published in 1924, "The Box-Car Children" is the beloved children's classic by American grade school teacher and author, Gertrude Chandler Warner. It is the story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, and their adventures living in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The children are having fun while living in the boxcar at first, though several adults in the community are aware of their situation and are keeping an eye...
4) The Ebb-Tide
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Published in 1894, the year of Stevenson's death, this novel tells of three unscrupulous men entrusted to deliver a cargo of champagne aboard a ship whose crew has died of smallpox. The three embark on a drunken voyage, only to discover an island whose sole European inhabitant, Attwater, has amassed a fortune in pearls.
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Tarzan volume 10
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English
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Tarzan is captured by a strange band of women. He escapes with the help of a young boy and meets the antmen as he tries to get back to civilization.
6) Coral Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survivalRalph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful...
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The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton. Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans. (Wasimbu's father Muviro, first mentioned in this story,...
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Tarzan volume 5
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English
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth adventure in the saga of the jungle lord and features both one of the series most celebrated locations, the lost city of Opar, as well as one of its most celebrated characters, the ruthless, obsessed and fatally beautiful La of Opar.
Seeking to make off with some of the lost city of Opar's treasures, Tarzan survives an earthquake only to take a blow to the head and be stricken with partial amnesia, leaving...
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Tarzan volume 6
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English
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This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
480L
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English
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"An irresistible new collectible hardcover in the beloved series of six Penguin Christmas Classics L. Frank Baum's Life and Adventures of Santa Claus was first published in 1902, two years after his Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Drawing on the attributes of Santa Claus from Clement Moore's 1822 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("The Night Before Christmas"), Baum chronicles Santa's life from his childhood in an enchanted forest--the same forest that is...
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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860L
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English
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen- year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
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Español
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Cuentos de la selva, publicado en 1918 en Buenos Aires, es un libro de relatos infantiles protagonizados por animales y ambientados en la selva de Misiones, en el extremo noreste de Argentina.
Horacio Quiroga dedicó este libro a sus hijos, con quienes vivió un período de pobreza en un húmedo y pequeño sótano.
La narrativa de Cuentos de la selva es un tributo a la naturaleza y a su belleza, el escritor plasma en ella valores que debe tomar en...
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Four timeless tales of adventure that have delighted generations of readers, young and old. Peter Pan is the enchanting story of a boy who wouldn't grow up and the girl he promised to always remember. One magical night, two mischievous denizens of an island of the imagination visit Wendy Darling and her younger brothers in their London home. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell whisk the children away to Neverland to join the Lost Boys in their epic struggle...
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As the time for planning comes to an end, Lakely and Tanner find themselves deep in a cave with one simple goal: Mining for material. Of course it seems simple at first, until things start going wrong...very wrong. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and more await these two in the mines and caves as they try desperately to escape and find their way back to the surface. As they continue their journey, however, the truth begins to come to light. The real truth....
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After trust is broken in the mines, Lakely isn't sure who she can trust anymore. With tensions rising and everyone turning on one another, Lakely tries to do what she can to salvage the damaged relationships of her friends and the rest of her team. However, a mysterious voice begins calling out to the group from within the caves, calling into question what is really going on here. After the discovery of what is truly calling their name, a search for...
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Step into the magical world of Ali Baba, a young Persian boy who discovers a cave filled with gold and jewels, the hidden treasures of forty deadly thieves. Unfortunately, his greedy brother, Kassim, cannot wait to get his hands on the riches. Returning to the cave, he is, captured by the thieves and killed, and now the evil men want, revenge on Ali Baba as well.
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Loulou is usually a happy little child without a care in the world. But, she's about to learn a tough lesson on human nature. It begins with a smartphone... Loulou's parents have finally decided it was time to let their daughter own a smartphone. They wanted Lou Lou to fit in with her peers at her new school, as she always tended to be, ridiculed. They hoped it would be different at her new school this time, but sometimes, life doesn't always bend...
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Extrait : "« O sommes-nous ? — Aux mains de Dieu.» C'était une voix désolée, une voix de femme, qui avait posé la question, et c'était une voix d'homme, grave et triste, qui avait donné la réponse. La chaloupe s'en allait perdue sur l'immense océan. Les vagues la poussaient en désordre, la soulevant, l'engloutissant. Elle contenait une quinzaine de malheureux, entassés pêle-mêle, des matelots que le découragement avait saisis et qui...
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