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2) Door
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A child finds a key to a mysterious door leading to a colorful, fantastical world full of friendly creatures.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Venturing into a region in the Indian Ocean to participate in a friendly robotics competition, Team Cousteau follows clues to a cliffside tomb, where a familiar foe would prevent Cruz from retrieving the final pieces of his mother's cipher.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cruz Coronado leaves his home in Hawaii to study and travel with other young people invited to attend the elite Explorer Academy in Washington, D.C.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minnow, one of King Neptune's daughters, is always asking questions, and when she discovers a curious object, Minnow sets out to learn the object's function and uncovers answers to her questions about herself and her life's purpose.
7) Toucania
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young explorer has a chance to travel to a magical island inhabited by unusual creatures she's only ever heard about in bedtime stories told to her by her grandfather"--
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As Cruz and his friends continue to search for the third piece of the cipher, a mysterious message arrives suggesting that someone close to him is working for Nebula, leaving Cruz unsure of who he can trust.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cruz Coronado sets sail for the shores of Iceland and Norway aboard the Explorer Academy ship to continue his studies at sea. But, things take a turn while exploring the icy north, when he embarks on a dangerous mission to uncover the first piece of an important puzzle his mother left behind. -- Provided by publisher.
10) The star dunes
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Cruz and his Explorer Academy friends travel to Africa to investigate the latest clue left by Cruz's mother, an unlikely ally provides assistance, but a new invention from Dr. Quills allows Cruz a glimpse of the past and an unsettling look into his future.
Author
Series
Not-so-impossible tales volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Oliver's explorer parents go missing, he sets sail on the rescue mission with some new, unexpected friends.
12) The winter pony
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorerspy still out there, his opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned from his time aboard Orion, true explorers must never give up. Even after...
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Cruz Coronado grapples with an important secret as the gang heads to China in search of the second-to-last piece of the cipher. Under the watchful eye of a new adviser, life on the ship returns to almost normal ... Almost. Just as things seem to be going smoothly, a familiar face shocks Cruz back into reality, and the final piece in this life-and-death scavenger hunt veers toward a dead end"--
Author
Series
Tower of winds volume 2
Publisher
b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.
17) Submarine outlaw
Author
Series
Submarine outlaw volume 1
Publisher
Ronsdale Press
Language
English
Description
Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer - not a fisherman, as his family demands - teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the Maritimes. When the submarine is mistaken for a Russian spy sub and chased by the coastguard, a thrilling high-seas chase ensues. "Submarine Outlaw" shows how any great goal in life requires patience, determination and hard work, but also how hard work on one's dream can be a joyous...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Thea sisters continue the search for the seven ancient treasures, using the clues found in Aurora Beatrix Lane's travel diary to find a fabulous emerald which once belonged to Cleopatra--a quest that leads them from Moscow, to the Sahara, and finallyBolivia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
On summer vacation in Scotland, the Thea sisters are intrigued by a tapestry that is really a treasure map supposedly leading to a hidden alabaster garden where an ancient treasure is buried, and the story of Aurora Beatrix Lane, an adventurous explorer mouse--and when the tapestry is stolen they set out to find the treasure using the explorer's diary as a guide.
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