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La isla del tesoro (Treasure Island) es una novela de aventuras escrita por el escocés Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada en libro en Londres en 1883 (publicada originalmente por entregas en la revista infantil Young Folks, entre 1881 y 1882 con el título de The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island).Esta obra ha sido fuente de inspiración en el cine, en la televisión, en la literatura, en cómics e incluso en videojuegos. La novela adopta un tono crítico...
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c2016.
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Sam y Remi Fargo se encuentran en la costa oeste de México cuando la noticia de los terribles efectos de un terremoto cerca de la frontera pone al matrimonio en marcha. Decididos a ayudar en todo lo que puedan, parten a toda velocidad con su yate hacia la zona afectada. Ya en las aldeas damnificadas de la costa llega a sus oídos la noticia de un pueblo indígena que se ha quedado aislado cerca del Volcán Tacaná. Sin dudarlo ni un segundo, los...
4) Hoyos
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Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
5) Fool's gold
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[2008]
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Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Pub. Date
2000.
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In the Arizona Territory of the 1870's, Marshal Sam Mackenna is the only living person who knows the tortuous route to the fabulous "Cañon del Oro". During his journey, Mackenna is captured by Colorado, a brutal Mexican bandit who has long sought his death. But, if Mackenna is to lead the cutthroat gang to the lost treasure, Colorado must keep him alive.
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Three women, widows of a gang of outlaw brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from corrupt vigilantes and a group of villains seeking the wherabouts of their dead husbands' buried treasure. They must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another along the way.
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