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Author
Publisher
Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"His imagination captured by the account of a sixteenth-century Spanish monk who reported that the Incas "flew like birds" over the jungle and by tales of flying in Peruvian folklore, the author sets out to discover whether the ancients really were airborne - or experienced flying by other means. A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood on it are his only clues when he begins his quest for the Incas' secret.".
"But soon he's trekking...
3) Excavation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries -- and wealth beyond imagining -- could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
4) Evil Star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1991
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Peters has done a prodigious amount of work i reconstruction the history of one of the most interesting peoples inhabing the Americas, and one of the least known, the Incas of Peru. Using this knowledge brilliantly, he has written a beautiful, tragic, and heroic account of theri last years, from 1511 to 1530, when these superior Indians were overwhelmed y Spanish conquerors." James A Michener.
18) The gold eaters
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book is a biography of Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish explorer who captured the supreme Inca Atahuallpa in Peru, took the Inca's gold and silver, and executed the supreme Inca.