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81) Vasco da Gama
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the fifteenth century voyages taken by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who furthered his nation's power by expanding trade routes to India.
Publisher
Girdwood Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Join Mz. Bee and WeeBee Tunes travel friends on their latest trip around the world. Countries include: Norway, Germany, Russia, China, India, Jerusalem, Tanzania, South Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Canada and the USA. Includes fourteen travel episodes plus the theme songs for the seven travel friends and their continents.
84) Africa
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book details the history, culture, and geography of Africa."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Greenwild volume V. 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma-- but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes--she has stepped out of the city and into another world. This is the Greenwild. Bursting...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
Ã2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Travel with the explorers who in 1804 set out from the Missouri River to help expand the nation to the Pacific coast. Discover rivers, waterfalls, animals, and plants that were unknown to people east of the Mississippi River. Learn how people sailed through rapids, crossed rivers, and traveled over mountains. Meet new tribes of American Indians and find out how a U.S. President's dream came true. This book describes in detail the lives of adventurous...
Publisher
Distributed by BCI Eclipse Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
On the mystic world of Eternia, the battle of good and evil rages on! He-Man, Battlecat and their heroic friends face countless challenges from Skeletor and his dastardly minions, and learn many important lessons during their astonishing adventures.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An innovative look back through time, Manhattan Maps follows the history of Manhattan Island from its natural formation to the bustling city today. It explores the ways in which nature and people are connected, tracking the people who lived on Manhattan from the Lenape Indians to Dutch settlers hunting for beaver pelts to early Americans and beyond, and how they've (literally) shaped the island (and vice versa). Jen Thermes highlights watershed moments...
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Molly, Emmett, and Molly's mother compete in a high-profile race to become the first people to reach the South Pole, where Emmett's father, explorer and ship captain Wendell Lee, disappeared years ago.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Sorceline has had a knack for the study of mythical creatures, and now a student at Professor Archibald Balzar's prestigious school of cryptozoology, she is eager to earn a spot as one of Balzar's apprentices.
