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1) Stowaway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor, which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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Description
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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Series
Shark school volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Shark-tastic adventures in the deep blue sea!"--P. [4] of cover.FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Harry Hammer decides to leave Shark Point for better waters, he finds squid-tastic trouble instead in this Shark School (mis)adventure. Instead of a super-cool celebration, Harry Hammer's birthday party turns into a super-colossal embarrassment! Why do his parents always make him feel like a big baby hammerhead in front of his friends-and his...
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Series
Shark school volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Harry Hammer's new hero is Turbo Tex, an Olimpet gold medal-winning tiger shark. When Harry meets Tony, an awesome tiger shark at Shark Point Sea-cub Camp, he wants to be friends, but can't seem to win over Tony.
6) Water, water
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"A boy wakes up to find the entire world has turned into a sea of endless water. As hours turn to days, he realizes that help is not coming and he must learn to rely on his own wits to survive this bizarre new world."--
7) Moby-Dick
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...
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Series
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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, the old man is served with...
10) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The story of young David Balfour, whose miserly uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. But justice triumphs - after a spirited odyssey that includes a shipwreck, a hazardous journey across Scotland with a daredevil companion, intrigues, narrow escapes, and desperate fighting.
11) Robinson, Crusoe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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"Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends."--Back cover....
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Series
Deep dive volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Max is determined to track down the evil professor even if it means traveling into the deadly Forest of Souls.
Author
Series
Deep dive volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Max and his robodog Rivet attempt to rescue Max's kidnapped father from a giant cyber squid
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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations,...
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Series
Deep dive volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Maxand Lia have tracked the evil professor to the Black Caves but they have to face Kraya the blood shark.
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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab. Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but...
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Series
Wild robot volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and...
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Series
Shark school volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry Hammer thinks he sees a fierce great white shark near Shark Point. He sounds the alarm and everyone panics! Turns out it's just an old basking shark, and now everyone is furious. After a couple more minnow-size mistakes, Harry sees a real great white shark and it's trouble"--Page 4 of cover.