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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After thousands of battles over a thousand years of hunting the undead, Zacarias De La Cruz has completed his mission and is content to see his brothers are safe and settled with women, but with centuries of killing behind him, Zacarias finally has time to consider who he is--and who he has become--and seeks answers back in his native Peru.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1924
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had...
Author
Series
Dark series volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manolito de la Cruz, a Carpathian man close to turning into a vampire, lures MaryAnn Delaney, a counselor for battered women, to South America to seduce her, sensing that she is to be his life mate.
Author
Publisher
Brown Bear Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
With nearly 200 entries on individual countries, and details of dozens of dependencies, this new reference series provides invaluable information about the countries of the world at a glance. Each country profile includes an up-to-date data file, a map, and country flag, as well as descriptive text about a country's geography, history, and economy.
This profile includes an up-to-date data file, a map, and a country flag, as well as descriptive text...
9) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Language
English
Description
An action-packed adventure set in the unforgiving and uncharted Amazon from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only...
Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only...
14) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
Author
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic Hikes series, this time exploring 50 of the Americas' most rewarding treks and trails. From Canada's longest hut-to-hut hike, the Sunshine Coast Trail, to a descent throughHavasu Canyon in the USA, and the Santa Cruz Trail of northern Peru, we cover a huge variety of themes and experiences across routes that range from one-day walks to multi-day treks"--
17) She thief
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Demi--a master pickpocket working for the gang leader Fay--steals a ring, his partner in crime, Baz, soon finds herself alone and betrayed as police and the Barrio's crime boss close in on Fay and her den of child thieves.
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
The illustrated edition.
Language
English
Description
"The first fully illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's account of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, featuring excerpts from related works, letters by Darwin, and other supplementary resources."--
20) Courageous
Author
Language
English
Description
When Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange returns home to Texas, he must employ all of his training to help a former associate from South America while trying to avoid Peg Larson, the daughter of his ranch foreman who is a distraction he cannot afford.
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