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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.
3) Early humans
Language
English
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Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie and Jack present information about ancient Greece and the athletic events known as the Olympic games that were held there.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, 'I see wonderful things.' Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more...
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Series
Great books of the Western World volume 8-9
Publisher
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the Seven Wonders of the World, presenting painted illustrations and descriptions of their purposes, construction, and appearance, based on the findings of archaeologists.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The first volume in a new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Historian Bauer provides both sweeping scope and attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a geography of great events, while timelines give the reader...
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"It begins in Africa . . .A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them, plants and animals, has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how the notion of body and soul is understood. 240 pp. 40,000 print.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Language
English
Description
"It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-- the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India....
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English
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The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a 'revolution, which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth'.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as 'a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the...
19) Circe: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her...
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Series
Earth chronicles expeditions volume 2
Publisher
Bear & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The continuing autobiographical account of the investigations and discoveries that led to The Earth Chronicles series"--Provided by publisher.
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