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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself.
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Author
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Weaving together the true life historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions--whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day"--
11) The Himalayas
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the southwestern region of the United States from the sixteenth century to the Mexican War, examining the interactions between the Spanish, Indians, and American pioneers.
14) Polar explorers
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the lives, education, successes, and failures of such explorers as John Franklin, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott as they ventured into the Arctic and Antarctic.
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 1
Publisher
T. Doherty
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
17) Farthest north
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of American westward expansion, including the exploration of the frontier to the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of the Lone Star State and the Mormon kingdom of Deseret, Manifest Destiny, the California gold rush, the population of the plains, and the legacy of the American frontier.
20) Redemption
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the arduous journey of a twelve-year-old English girl and her mother as they flee with other religious protesters to the New World in the early 1500's, and the heartbreak and hope they find when they arrive.