George Newbern
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life -- a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nineteenth-entury science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.