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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Splash into the wet and wondrous world of amphibious vehicles! Meet the awesome Amphicar and the "duck" that cruised into combat! In this book, readers in grades 4-8 will discover how these clever carriers navigate from water to land and back again. This information- and photo-packed series introduces readers to the coolest off-road vehicles on the market and in the military. Each book in the series revs readers' engines with amazing details and eye-catching...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Readers enter the underwater world of extreme submarines with this text, which offers a high-interest take on the career, technology, and engineering curricula in elementary classrooms. Readers learn the basics of submarine technology and how submarine crews live inside the machine. The text examines the ways in which submarines are used, including civilian and military missions, and how they escape detection in the deepest depths of the oceans. Familiar...
23) Hydroplanes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hydroplanes travel across the water toward the finish line at incredible speeds. One wrong move can send the vehicle into a serious crash. Students will learn about the history and construction of these lightweight speed-machines.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Titanic has fascinated people around the world since its construction began in March 1909. In this captivating book, readers will set sail with the passengers of the Titanic on its fateful journey across the Atlantic. They'll learn about the ship, its passengers, its crew, and some theories behind why an 'unsinkable' ship sank so quickly. Each chapter features a fictional account from a crewman that enlivens the main text, which is also supported...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Loaded with guns, torpedoes, and guided missiles, Arleigh Burke Destroyers are always ready to protect U.S. Navy warships. Young readers will learn how these destroyers use the latest technology to defend the fleet and carry out attack missions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"An extended picture book about the history and construction of the steamship SS United States, its designer William Francis Gibbs, and author/illustrator David Macaulay's personal story of immigration to America on board the SS United States."--Provided by publisher.
27) Frozen enemies
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Hyperspace High volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Now a full-time student at Hyperspace High, John Riley and his fellow classmates go on a field trip to the high security museum planet of Archivus Major--but the trip goes badly wrong when two rival tribes of aliens are "accidentally" released from a cryogenic storage cube.
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Jupiter pirates volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"As Tycho and his siblings continue to compete for the captain's chair of the Shadow Comet, they must work together to hunt for an old pirate treasure--a treasure that is tied to some long-buried family secrets"--
29) Tentacles
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Cryptid hunters series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.
30) Ship
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes wooden ships or caravels of the fifteenth century and follows archaeologists as they uncover a lost caravel in the Caribbean Sea.
31) The iron island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A German submarine has torpedoed the steamship Maiden! The damaged ship is an iron island in the sea. The Oliver family arrives to repair the vessel. When the Germans return to sink the ship, they capture Samuel's father and uncle. Can Samuel rescue his family?"--Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Meet Wernher von Braun, who developed the booster rocket that won the space race for the United States. Follow von Braun's story from his early work developing the V-2 ballistic missile to his development of the Saturn V booster rocket that took Apollo 11 to the moon"--Provided by publisher.
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Emperor of the Universe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"When seventh grader Nicholas V. Landrew, his beloved pet gerbil Henrietta, and a package of ground beef are beamed aboard an alien space ship, they soon find themselves on the run in a madcap chase across the universe. Now all Nicholas wants to do is get back home before his parents find out and ground him forever, but with the Universal Police hot on his trail, that won't be easy. Before it's all over, Henrietta will find herself safely ensconced...
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Jupiter pirates volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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For Tycho Hashoone and his family, space privateering on their ship Shadow Comet is a way of life--that just got a lot more complicated. Earth is mounting an arms race, and has started recruiting privateers of their own. Meanwhile, the Ice Wolves of Saturn are on the offensive, using ruthless tactics reminscent of pirates of old. The Jovian Union, trapped between the two, asks the Hashoones for help, and the stage is set for a showdown on the Cybele...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After the Titanic sank in 1912, many schemes were proposed to lift the great ship from its watery grave. But there were problems--no one knew exactly where the Titanic had sunk, and, even if they had, the technology to reach the ship, which lay on the ocean floor almost two miles down, didn't exist. By the 1970s, however, new technologies allowed explorers like Dr. Richard Ballard to search the deep ocean. Finally, in 1985, Dr. Ballard found something...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It was 2:00 A.M. on April 15, 1912, in the middle of the icy Atlantic Ocean. Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer stood on the slanted deck of the RMS Titanic and weighed his options--Jump, or die, he thought.
Titanic's Passengers and Crew is a compilation of compelling stories about the people aboard the luxurious--and supposedly unsinkable--ship. From wealthy first-class passengers like Jack Thayer to third-class travelers and crew, readers will meet...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the moment the iceberg was spotted, at 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic's fate was sealed. Its 2,200 passengers and crew, in the course of two momentous hours, would meet their destiny in the icy, black waters of the North Atlantic.
Titanic's Last Hours: The Facts is a riveting account of the last two hours the supposedly unsinkable ship was afloat. Beginning at 11:40 P.M., the book relives the events set in motion after the brush...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The ship had only seconds to spare. Titanic's officers steered the ship to the left as quickly as they could to avoid a head-on collision. But they weren't fast enough. The right side of the ship struck the side of the ice mountain floating in the north Atlantic. The fate of the Titanic--and its 1,317 passengers and 885 crew members--had been sealed. Titanic's Fatal Voyage tells the devastating story of how the gigantic and supposedly unsinkable ship...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
On May 31, 1911, thousands of excited people crammed into a shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were there to watch the empty hull of RMS Titanic enter the water for the very first time. Proud workers hugged their children as they pointed at the massive ship they had helped build. In just 62 seconds, the giant ocean liner was floating for the very first time. It was the largest human-made object the world had ever seen! Creating Titanic: The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Critically acclaimed nonfiction author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the story of the TITANIC and that fateful April night, drawing on the voices of survivors and archival photographs.
Scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the TITANIC, a topic that continues to haunt and thrill readers to this day, this book by critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC...
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