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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Extreme scientists battle some of the Earth's most intense conditions, from hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the daring, charismatic Antarctic explorer who fell short of his goal of crossing Antarctica, but accomplished a far greater feat by bringing every member of his crew back alive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and travels of Jacques Cartier, the sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China.
12) Explorers
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the lives and accomplishments of such women known for their travels as Isabella Bird Bishop, Amelia Earhart, Mary Kingsley, Annie Smith Peck, Freya Stark, and Valentina Tereshkova.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.
17) Great explorers
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discover the stories of explorersthe most ancient to the modern dayfrom the deepest depths of the ocean to the highest mountains in the world. In this book you'll find true stories about Marco Polo's Silk Road, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's conquest of Everest, and Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's trip to the moon, and much more. Learn all about the explorers who discovered the unknown and made the world the place we know today. Perfect for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The world was fascinated and concerned. Dr. David Livingstone's 1866 expedition to find the source of the Nile River in Africa was only supposed to last two years. But it had been almost six years since anyone had heard from the famous British explorer. That's when a young American newspaper reporter named Henry Morton Stanley decided to go on his own expedition to find Dr. Livingstone. Author Jim Gigliotti chronicles the lives of both of these men...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A collective biography of eleven men who explored the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries, including ship's officers, fur traders, and Army officers. The men who opened the American West were a varied group. A number had grandiose dreams of glory, but only a few became famous. However, each fearlessly approached his journey and brought the world knowledge of the uncharted lands known as "the West." This absorbing group biography includes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...
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