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21) Green mansions
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently...
25) Eva Luna
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The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
27) Excavation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries -- and wealth beyond imagining -- could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
28) Courageous
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The life of a paid mercenary makes sense to Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange. The jungles of South America may make his former job as a ranch manager for his friend Jay Pendleton look like a cakewalk, but it's nothing that the former Green Beret can't handle.A woman's heart, however-that's dangerous territory. Back in Texas, Grange's biggest problem was avoiding Peg Larson and all the complications being attracted to the daughter of his foreman...
29) Evil Star
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Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
31) South America
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Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses characteristics of various sections of South America such as the Andes, the Amazon rain forest, and the pampas.
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2014.
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When the San Jose Mine collapsed outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the miners' experiences below the Earth's surface, and the lives that led them there, has never been heard, until now.
33) South America
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[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This book is an introduction to the unique people, plants, animals, geographical features, cultures, and today's tourism of South America.
34) River of death
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An expedition venturing into the Brazilian rain forest could not imagine what awaited them; those who survived would never forget.
36) Do or die
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Reluctant heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue in a big way when he turned his talents to a lawless life of jewel heists and con jobs, or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, the former Special Ops warrior is still fighting for good, leading a small band of freelance covert operatives who take care of high-stakes business in highly unofficial ways. That makes Ian the hands-down choice when the U.S. government must breach a heavily guarded embassy and...
37) South America
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Learn about South America's history, culture and entertainment.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Olinguitos live in cool, humid cloud forests in the mountains. For many years, scientists mistook their pelts and skeletons for olingos, a related mammal. But in the early 2000s, Kristofer Helgen noticed something different about some olingos. He suspected they might be a separate mammal species-a rare discovery.
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O'Keefe family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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A thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simón Bolívar.