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1) Encounter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
Description
In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.
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Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Fourteen-year-old bookmaker's apprentice Baltasar, pursued by a secret witch-hunting arm of the Inquisition, escapes by joining Columbus's expedition and discovers magical secrets about his own past that his family had tried to keep hidden"--
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Series
Earthdivers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on...
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Series
Colección Leer en español volume 3
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
Explores in story format, what drove Columbus to sail west in search of a new passage to India. Includes study questions.