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1) Explorer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text examine the history of explorers and exploration, and highlight many of their discoveries.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discover how the greatest explorers in history plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, readers explore fourteen historic journeys.
4) Exploration
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text plus historical and contemporary maps provide a look at the world during the Age of Exploration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Running through six countries in the middle of Africa, the Congo Basin contains some of the largest tropical rainforests in the world. Dealing with present-day issues of climate change, it is home to bonobo apes, mountain gorillas, forest elephants, and more. With details about the exploration (and exploitation) by the European colonialists and the aftermath of their arrival in the Congo, this book will give readers a better understanding of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is ...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's judgment, determination, and peacemaking role with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Presenta un relato de la expedición de dos años y medio que proporcionó un vasto conocimiento del Occidente, geográficamente y científicamente.
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their team set out on an exciting yet challenging expedition into the American West. They faced many difficult choices along the way. Now the choices are yours. Would you rather discover new animals or new plants, both of which could cause you harm? Would you rather be caught in a flash flood or a blinding snowstorm? Would you rather risk crossing rugged mountain terrain or going down rapids in a canoe?...
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