David Ackroyd
1) Swamplandia!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her...
2) Black duck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
3) First light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, where he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never would have imagined possible.
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Takes a look at Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas. Examines whether this ancient South American city was a home to the gods or a place for offerings made to them in the form of human sacrifice. Witness ancient Inca ceremonies and learn how the city was discovered by Hiram Bingham.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The bastian of some of the most top-secret activities in the world is literally impenetrable. It was the original testing site for the atomic bomb and then a high-security aero-engineering cluster. Here its public history ends and after 1968, it simply does not exist. Known by insiders as "Dreamland", Area 51 invokes conjectural theories like no other place. What happens in this zone of the Nevada desert? Through declassified documents and interviews...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
12) The Legacy
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Prior to appearing before a congressional committee, Major Norman Starr, attached to the National Security Council, spends a weekend reflecting on his situation and the long line of Americans from whom he is descended.