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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old...
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 40
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
5) Fast ice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala investigate. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon: a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel a Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem in this advanced facility. And perhaps something strange...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
9) The sign
Author
Language
English
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Oni
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal on the desolate and bone-chilling continent of Antarctica. When tragedy strikes a Russian science station, it's up to Carrie to investigate the scene and piece together what could have caused such an explosion. The answers she finds have the potential to rock not just the ice, but the entire world!
14) Waiting for mama
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The author captures the icy beauty of Antarctica and the wonders of a penguin family that thrives there.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious penguin chick. The One Day on Our Blue Planet series by Ella Bailey is a new set of children|s books focused on the way our young animal friends spend a day. This time we head to the biting cold of Antarctica to meet a curious penguin chick!"--Pubilsher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.
17) La señal
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B/Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 37-040
Publisher
Random House Audio & Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Eve of the emperor penguin: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
Moonlight on the magic flute: Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762 where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For Little Pip, the baby penguin, home is a pebbly nest on the cold Antarctic shore. Mama and Papa always reminds Pip not to wander far, and she never does...until one day a black, glittery feather leads Pip on a chase far, far from home. As she tries to find her way back to her parents, Pip encounters some friendly animals, a mighty blue whale, a gull, and even a sled dog. But while these animals know where their home is, they do not know where Pip's...
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