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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class's weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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A surprisingly prophetic science fiction story, first published in 1870, about an electric submarine, its mysterious captain, and the adventures of a French scientist and his companions have while prisoners on board the boat.
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"From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today--and one of the very few women in her field--Into the Planet blends...
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NUMA files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Kurt Austin and his partner, Joe Zavala, of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, receive a frantic call about a crew trapped inside a sunken ship off the Faroe Islands. Using cutting-edge technology, they pull off the rescue with a new submersible, only to find themselves involved with members of an environmental group and, at the same time, up against the mysterious Oceanus Corporation. After several attempts by Austin at industrial espionage...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
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On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact. So long as they don't disturb the Ilmataran habitat, they're free to conduct their missions in peace. But when Henri Kerlerec, media personality and reckless adventurer, ends up sliced open by curious...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
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Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.
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NUMA files volume 6
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When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a jolt before reversing the effect, the NUMA Special Assignments Team must stop him.
10) Riptide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to Maine...
11) Pool
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2015.
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Two shy children meet at a noisy pool and dive beneath the crowd into a magical undersea land, where they explore a fantastical landscape and meet various creatures.
12) White Death
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NUMA files volume 4
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Hailed as a hero for the new millennium, Austin is the leader of NUMA's special assignments team--and the threat before him now is definitely special. A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men; but when they investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.
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Adventures of Marco Flamingo volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Marco Flamingo decides that the next place he wants to visit is the open ocean, even though everyone he asks says it is no place for a flamingo, but with the help of some scuba gear he is able to find out for himself, and make some new friends too.
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Sigma Force novels volume 17
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"The Titan Project—an international research station off the coast of Australia—discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire region. Massive quakes, volcanic eruptions, and deadly...
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NUMA files volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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An anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger a polar shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his "wake-up call" could annihilate the entire population of the world.
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Choose your own adventure volume 2
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Readers make choices that determine the outcome of the story when, while exploring the seas for the lost continent of Atlantis, they are separated from their diving vessel.
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NUMA files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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In the last few years, Cussler's Numa Files novels, written with Paul Kemprecos, have only grown more popular-and more eagerly anticipated. "Cussler's multitude of fans arrive at the table expecting a roiling stew of seafaring adventure, exotic travel destinations, cutting-edge science and a splash of romance. In White Death, they will find their expectations extravagantly fulfilled" (Publishers Weekly). And they will find them fulfilled again in...