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Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Percy and his friends set out to find his best friend, Grover, who is held prisoner on an island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, before heading out to save Camp Half-Blood from mythological monsters.
3) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soren goes on a perilous quest in order to rescue his mentor, a journey which leads him to a truth that threatens to destroy the owl kingdom.
5) The walk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Alan Christoffersen loses his wife, his business, and his home and embarks on a cross country walk, leaving behind what little is left of his life, and in the course of his journey, the people he meets and the places he visits offer him hope, inspiration, and refuge.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nyroc, son of the evil Kludd and Nyra, is forced to fufill his dead father's destiny and oppress all of owldom, but when doubt grows in Nyroc's heart he must make an ultimate decision between good and evil.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
8) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soren and the rest of the band of owls in the great tree must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms in order to prepare for the deadly attack against them, but St. Aggie has fallen to the Pure Ones and without Soren and his allies, their enemies will prevail.
9) The ancient
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bransen Garibond, in search of his father, journeys to the land of Vanguard, where he plays a central role in a war against the cruel leader Ancient Bradden.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase.
12) The cat's table
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated retelling of "Gulliver's Travels" in which the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
14) Crossings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
The American-born wife of the French ambassador to the U.S. is forced to choose between duty and love during World War II.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young CIA agent Switters, hindered by a shaman's curse that keeps him from allowing his feet to touch earth, continues his adventures around the world in a wheelchair and on stilts, lusting after his teenage stepsister, consorting with nuns and rebels, and challenging the Vatican.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.
18) Less: a novel
Author
Publisher
A Lee Boudreaux Book, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2008, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to travel around the world in forty days without an adult.
20) Sea of poppies
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The "Ibis," embarks on a journey from Calcutta with a diverse crew of sailors--which includes a bankrupt raja, a widowed tribeswoman, a Mulatto American freedman, and a French orphan--to the poppy fields in Ganges, to China's nineteenth-century Opium War.
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