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1) The relic
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?
2) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
4) The brave
Author
Series
Contender volume Bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a group of Cheyenne braves who on August 7, 1867, defied the white men encroaching on their territory by becoming the only Native Americans to successfully derail and raid a freight train--an "iron horse.".
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In Merchants & Empire Cathy Matson examines the attitudes and practices of New York's wholesale merchants, a group that operated beneath the gaze of imperial traders yet made up as much as 80 percent of the mercantile community. She finds them an interesting, if opportunistic, lot - quick to flout authority to their own advantage, but also willing to enjoy the benefits of British imperial protection when it suited them. These merchants succeeded in...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
Captain America's nemesis, the Red Skull, has been murdered and Cap must find his killer. Plus, he has to retrieve the Skull's last project, a Cosmic Cube that can alter reality, and stop a group of the Skull's followers from setting off bombs in Paris, London, and Manhattan.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 13 fight Crossbones' efforts to destroy A.I.M. Then, Cap travels to Europe in search of his old partner, Bucky Barnes, but Crossbones and Sin are not far behind and Cap's newest enemy,General Aleksander Lukin, makes an appearance as well.