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2) Subterranean
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010], c1999
Language
English
Description
Archaelogist Ashley Carter and a team of specialists attempt to explore a labyrinth deep beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth, a deadly maze that holds things that should not be disturbed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years of human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap. But will it mark a new chapter in our development. or our extinction? A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today. In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist...
Author
Series
Oracle prophecies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Since the destruction of the Oracle, madness reigns in the Two Lands - and his name is General Argelin.Seth and the Jackal secretly gather a group of resisters, risking all in an attempt to save the Two Lands from Argelin's tyranny. Their last hope lies in the Underworld with the help of the priestess Mirany.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The great love of Corey's life has always been her best friend, Bree: closer than sisters, their bond is unbreakable. Or so Corey thought, until Bree betrays her in the worst way possible. When Bree's sudden death rocks their small island community, Corey is heartbroken and furious. How can she mourn her one-time friend when she is still so angry at her? But though Bree has passed on, her spirit remains--and her and Corey's tale isn't finished yet....
10) The Descent
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Hell Exists. In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth.... In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity call Older-than-Old.... In Bosnia, Major Elias Branch crash-lands his gunship near a mass grave and is swarmed by pale cannibals...
11) The AEneid
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Aeneid" is considered by some to be one of the most important epic poems of all time. The story is as much one of the great epic hero, Aeneas, as it is of the foundation of the Roman Empire. Aeneas, a Trojan Prince who escapes after the fall of troy, travels to Italy to lay the foundations for what would become the great Roman Empire. Virgils "Aeneid" is a story of great adventure, war, love, and of the exploits of an epic hero. In the work Virgil...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pat and Jen are heroes. After defeating Evil Jen and closing all the portals to the underworld, they have nothing to worry about, no villains to defeat, and no adventures to go on. Awesome, right? Until a mysterious voice tells Jen that she has to go to the underworld to uncover a secret about her past. It is a quest she can only undertake alone. With Jen off to find out the truth and Pat desperate to find Jen, the heroes almost don't notice that...
13) A world away
Author
Series
Quest of Dan Clay volume 1
Publisher
Tate Pub. & Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"To avert a potential underworld mutiny of horrific proportions, these fifty insurrectionists were relocated through a portal from the pit of hell to the dark Eldritch Forest of another world, parallel to our own. Upon their banishment, the condemned were transformed into half-man and half-serpent creatures. Thirteen years ago William Clay--then a mere child--disappeared from a nearby forest, never to be seen again. Only recently, his younger brother,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Continuing the fantastic true story begun in "Spiritwalker", Wesselman offers the memoir of a scientist and shaman who has time-traveled 5,000 years into the future, where the modern world has disappeared and indigenous tribes are making a new way in the world.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After noted explorer Edward Dennison vanishes, a search party led by anthropologist Jonathan Brock embarks on a mission to find him. Retracing Dennison's last known tracks through a secret passage in Alaska--a gateway to the very center of the Earth--the team discovers an underworld tribe of primitive warriors and prehistoric dangers previously unknown to civilization.
Author
Series
Quest of Dan Clay volume 2
Publisher
Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Within the hexed walls of the fortress, Dan and his companions are plagued with unsettling questions...questions whose answers will require a deeper infiltration into the secret recesses of the centuries-old castle, answers which will involve confrontations with the citadel's animate and inanimate residents, and answers which will entail encounters with the savage beasts of the forest. Is Dan's brother, William, alive and a prisoner of the Reclaimers?...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pat and Jen do everything together, including saving the day! But when Jen and Evil Jen find out they have one chance to find their long-lost mother in the Overworld, Jen’s going to take it—even if it means that Pat can’t join her on an adventure for the first time ever. With Mr. Rainbow’s help travelling to the Overworld should be the easiest part, but when something goes wrong, Jen and Evil Jen wind up trapped in the nether. Right about...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings, and what do the paintings mean? Before any questions can...
20) Ghost book
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"July Chen sees ghosts. But her dad insists ghosts aren't real. So she pretends they don't exist. Which is incredibly difficult now as it's Hungry Ghost month, when the Gates of the Underworld open and dangerous ghosts run amok in the living world. When July saves a boy ghost from being devoured by a Hungry Ghost, he becomes her first ever friend. Except William is not a ghost. He's a wandering soul wavering between life and death. As the new friends...