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Author
Publisher
Falcon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the Arctic Ocean has seen a steady and significant reduction of sea ice over the past seven years due to climate change. Because of this, Larsen's and Waters' trip, dubbed the "Last North Expedition",...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is the late 10th century, and you are one of a hardy band of young adventurers who plan to sail all the way from Scandinavia to Vinland in North America. Will you survive this arduous voyage in a fragile open boat?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discover how the greatest explorers in history 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, readers explore fourteen historic journeys.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text follows a young explorer as he discovers bugs and then increasingly larger creatures, brings them home to learn about them, and is warned by his mother that each is unwelcome.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage-now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey.
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
Author
Series
Dora the explorer volume 21
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dora and Boots climb Star Mountain in search of the necklace her grandmother gave her.
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Archer Helmsley's grandparents have finally returned home, but there are rumors they've brought a curse with them"--
16) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap ; An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into the historical events that prompted Columbus' efforts to establish new trade routes to the Indies, his struggles to obtain financial support for his voyages, and the important discoveries that caused him to become known as the "Great Admiral of the Seas."
20) Journey to Juno
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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