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1) The Iliad
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Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an...
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A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry...
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Mapmaker chronicles volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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The King is determined to create the first map of the world and has scoured the kingdom for boys who could become mapmakers. When Quinn is chosen for the King's training school, he's amazed - but that is nothing compared to his shock when he is selected as one of the three mapmakers and finds himself on board a ship, competing for the big prize. So begins Quinn's reluctant journey deep into the unknown, on a ship captained by a slave, with a stowaway...
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1984, c1977
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Follow the supreme adventurer, Tristan Jones, as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the lowest body of water in the world--The Dead Sea--to the highest--Lake Titicaca in the Andes--Jones finds himself "a thousand times beyond the limit of endurance." With tenacity stronger than any obstacle, Jones refuses to give up his adventure, even after...
8) Seabird
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1948.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
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[2022]
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"In 1668, fifteen-year-old Kemosha is sold by a slave owner to a tavern keeper in Port Royal, Jamaica--the "wickedest city on earth." She soon flees from a brutal assault and finds herself in the company of a mysterious free Black man, Ravenhide, who teaches her the fine art of swordplay, introduces her to her soul mate, Isabella, and helps her win her freedom. Ravenhide is a privateer for the notorious Captain Morgan aboard his infamous ship, the...
11) Disney Moana
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[2018]
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Acompaña a Moana en su viaje por los mares para salvar su isla en este cuento bilingüe basado en Moana de los Estudios de Animación Walt Disney. ¡El libro en inglés y español es perfecto para los fans de la película!
Set sail with Moana as she teams up with the demigod Maui to save her village and find her true calling. How far will Moana go?
12) High-flying tea
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Spirited Polynesian teenager Moana sets sail in search of a fabled island and along the way teams up with her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui, to traverse the open sea. They are on a voyage to return the heart of Te Fiti and save Moana's village.
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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"After Lucy P. Simmons's parents drown, Lucy must find a way to keep her greedy aunt and uncle from taking her family's house. A mysterious woman who seems to come from the sea, as well as the house itself, come to Lucy's aid"--
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