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2) Omega rising
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The Voyagers land on a planet made entirely of water where they must find the third element of the Source that will save the Earth."--
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The Alpha and Omega teams are in a race for the six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy, but the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy, and the teams are running out of time."--
Author
Series
Voyagers (Random House) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The Voyagers have made it to the last planet but must acquire a seventh element, combat dragons and an alien clone, and face serious illness before returning to Earth.
7) The return
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns from being cryogenically frozen and discovers that the world he left does not match the one he left.
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save our planet are six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy. But the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy. And its up to the Voyagers-a team of four remarkable kids and an alien-to gather them all and return to Earth. The Voyagers' fifth stop is Planet Tundra and it may look like a giant marshmallow, but this is no winter wonderland-its a winter nightmare! This frozen...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end.
One of the lesser known novels by Jules Verne, but certainly a novel that is worth reading, An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields is a fictional travelogue that describes the narrator's adventures as he travels from Kerguelen Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, towards the South Pole.
The novel is the account of the...
10) The Borrowers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
A family of miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans is forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game, but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings,...
13) I went walking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Simple text and illustrations tell the story of a boy who is followed home by such animals as a brown horse, a red cow, a green duck, and a pink pig.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"A mysterious gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Accompanied by his hapless servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out on a journey through jungles, deserts and mountains, across oceans and into great dangers"--
17) Half magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Description
The frightened people have heard the weird noises and seen the eerie glow atop the mountain. Only one man, Chief Inspector John Stock, finds a clue. And only he is able to trace the threads of the mystery to a fantastic machine and its creator - a genius who intends to make his mad dreams come true.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
Formats
Description
The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...