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4) Grayson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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An early-morning workout becomes an enchanting adventure when a record-holding swimmer reunites a baby whale and its mother. An inspiring, irresistible story for all ages, from the beloved author of Swimming to Antarctica. It's five o'clock in the morning and still dark. Swimming outside the wave break off the Catalina coast, training for her next long-distance swim (she has already crossed the English Channel twice), 17-year-old Lynne Cox senses...
5) Wild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Cheryl Strayed recounts the impact of her mother's death on her life at age twenty-two and chronicles her experiences after she made the impulsive decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert all the way into Washington State.
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Presents the author's first-hand account and observations of living in Afghanistan when his father is appointed President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000 foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats...
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