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Children of the lamp volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
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English
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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
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Indiana Jones and the arms of gold volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones travels to Argentian to seek a lost Incan treasure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When his father is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves UFOs and alien abduction.
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Indiana Jones and the arms of gold volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones travels to Argentian to seek a lost Incan treasure.
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English
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When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living in America. It wasn't exactly a 'New World,' but an old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals, and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors, and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals, and disease. Here is an exploration into...
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Was America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492? Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than 4,000 years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic? Did the Phoenicians, who circumnavigated the African continent in 600 bc, never consider sailing farther? Were the Vikings, the most fearless warriors and seafarers of all time, terrified...
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Indiana Jones and the arms of gold volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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With the help of a mysterious Incan stranger, Indiana Jones sets out to rescue Professor Francisca Uribe Del Arco and recover the Chimu Taya Arms of Gold, both are in the hands of Francisca's crazed brother Felipe. Unfortunately, Felipe and his followers wind up being the least of Indy's problems when an earthquake threatens certain death for everyone! Get ready for the exciting conclusion in the Arms of Gold.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Una biografia ilustrada de Julio C. Tello, considerado el fundador de la arqueologia peruana moderna y quien llego a ser el cientifico social indigena mas distinguido del siglo XX.
"A picture biography of Julio C. Tello, considered to be the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology, that traces his life from an early interest in Peru's ancient cultures to his rise as the most distinguished Indigenous social scientist of the twentieth century. A map...
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"Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--
Since the days of Cort�es, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts...
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