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2) Explorer
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brief history of famous explorers from ancient times to the present
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an old tale, young mouse Wilfred uses a trip into the hills as an opportunity to look for gold and explore unknown country.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there.
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.
The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
Shackleton is a captivating new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership...
5) Explorer
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highlights various explorers and their discoveries.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 5
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On an island nation in the Indian Ocean, the explorers venture through a vast underwater world and take part in a friendly robotics competition. But the tides of good fortune change quickly. Suddenly, Team Cousteau jumps into action to rescue a faculty member from the brink of death. Meanwhile, the team follows the Cruz's mother's clues to a magnificent tomb and center of spirituality precariously perched on the side of a cliff. There, Cruz is confronted...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the planet Nebulon in 2120, Zack joins his school's Explorer's Club and visits Juno, a planet made of crystals, but he is less than thrilled when he is partnered with the class bully.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
82 pages : Color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Open this dynamic book and discover how the greatest explorers in history — from Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong — plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, immerse yourself in such expeditions as:
—Leif Eriksson’s voyage to North America (eleventh century)
—Zheng’s...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Winchester illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings and ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at the Academy than he discovers that his family has a mysterious...
14) Prometheus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A team of explorers aboard the spaceship Prometheus searches for an advanced civilization that may have been responsible for human life on Earth. Instead, they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat of destroying them and all mankind.
17) The star dunes
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 4
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A major discovery forces the Explorer Academy into the limelight in The Star Dunes, but Cruz has much more on his mind than 15 minutes of fame. A new face on board the ship brings Cruz's worlds colliding, just as a major close call tears them apart. En route to Africa, Team Cousteau is now down a major player, and Cruz can't help but be preoccupied by the hole in his life. The discovery of his mom's next clue leads him to the most exotic location...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--...
Author
Publisher
Sugar23 Books, Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Peter Freuchen, a wildly eccentric Dane whose insatiable curiosity and unquenchable thirst for adventure, guided by ideals remarkably ahead of his time, took him from the twilight years of Arctic exploration to the Danish underground during World War II.
