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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Combining exploration,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Phileas Fogg has always been a quiet, orderly, and predictable English gentleman who reads the newspaper, visits the Reform Club, and dines at exactly the same time each day. But this routine is abandoned when he wagers his fortune in an outlandish bet that he can travel around the entire world in eighty days. Fogg sets off immediately to prove his point, accompanied by his new valet, Passepartout, whose job is turning out to be quite different from...
3) Stowaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the "Endeavor" which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
4) Blue water
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Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy — and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible.
On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin, Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are irrevocably altered when a drunk driver — Meg's onetime best friend, Cindy Ann Kreisler — slams into the Van Dorns' car, killing their
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English
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"Eight years ago, the three McKenna sisters--Kate, Ashley, and Caroline--had their fifteen minutes of fame. Driven by their ambitious father, they won an around-the-world sailing race as teenagers. But something happened out on the turbulent sea during a fierce storm they could never forget"--Page 4 of cover.
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English
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In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the globe and seized a nearly incalcuable sum of Spanish gold and silver, but only one of the five ships survived.
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English
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"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities,...
9) The blue
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English
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"They found paradise... what would they do to keep it? [A] spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for freedom-- and that's exactly what they find when they are invited onto The Blue, a fifty-foot yacht making its way from the Philippines to New Zealand....
10) Around the world
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.
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Zombie chasers volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling across the world, Zack Clarke and his zombie-fighting team search for an antidote that will stop the outbreak forever.
Zack Clarke and his zombie-chasing friends--Rice, Madison, Zoe, Ozzie, and Olivia--are headed into uncharted territory on their slimiest adventure yet. They'll have to escape zombified lemurs (not cute!) in Madagascar, eat brains (yuck!) in China, and fight zombie mummies (zummies!) in Egypt. The globe-trotting zombie chasers...
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Series
An ExLibris adventure volume 01
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in New York City, Ramona Keene dreamt of attending film school and traveling to Paris. Instead, she works at her uncles' bookstore, and all her adventures are between the covers of secondhand books. But the new landlord plans to triple the rent, something her uncles can't afford. To earn the money to help save the bookstore, Romy applies for a job at ExLibris Expeditions, a company that re-creates literary journeys. Her assignment:...
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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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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, he puts to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
In 1889, crusading reporter Nellie Bly sets out to beat the round-the-world record of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Two weeks into her trip, Bly is horrified to witness a fatal stabbing in Port Said and hears the dying man's last words. Despite her conviction that the victim was English, her traveling companions insist that she's mistaken. The killing may be connected with an effort to drive the British out of...
19) Calabash Cat
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Calabash Cat, living in Africa, sets off to see where the world ends.
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fictional journal of pirate hunter William Lubber chronicles his around-the-world voyage in search of the "Vicious and intemperate" female pirate Arabella Drummond in 1723. Includes a fold-out map, a packet of gold dust, a Chinese ransom note, a compass, and other manipulatives for readers.
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