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Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). First published in 1897, Twain's travel book "Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World" chronicles his 1895 tour of the British Empire when he was 60 years old. Fundamentally...
24) Maiden Voyage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.
Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere - until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Presents a kid's illustrated guide to 100 of the world's wonders, both natural and manmade, in 47 countries and on every continent on earth. Travel the world through common points of interest, from sacred skeletons (Trunyan Tree cemetery in Indonesia leads you to India's Skeleton Lake, for example) to wild waterfalls (while in Zambia visit the Devil's Swimming Pool--and then move on to Antarctica's Blood Falls) to ice caves to bioluminescence"--
31) The golden ocean
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Series
Formats
Description
In England of 1740, an Irish parson's gentle son signs up as midshipman on Anson's famous expedition to circumnavigate the globe. In the adventures that follow he grows to become a leader of men, rich and famous.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Traveling across the world, Zack Clarke and his zombie-fighting team search for an antidote that will stop the brain-eating zombies forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"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,...
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, and enlisting the help of his faithful servant Jean Passepartout, Fogg soon finds himself traveling through the jungles of India, war torn Paris and even the Wild West. But Fogg is not as alone as he may think--the Bank of England has been robbed and Fogg is the prime suspect! Now, top detective Wilbur Fix is tailing...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.