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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Formats
Description
The tale of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in post-colonial Africa. An evangelical minister discovers that everything--from garden seeds to Scripture--is transformed on African soil.
2) Congo
Author
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 15
4) The guardian
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Formats
Description
"As a member of the elite Air Force Pararescue, Travis Lane abides by the motto "These things we do, that others may live." After an injury forces him to consider retirement, he is blindsided when his brother-in-law is killed in the line of duty, leavingLane as the sole support for his sister and the family farm they can no longer afford.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Where?' someone yells, 'Where are we landing?' 'Africa. Somewhere.' A plane in trouble, a terrifying plummet into the depths of an African jungle, and capture by rebel military troopsall in just the first chapter of this brilliant debut novel by Marcus Stevens. Lewis' day begins with a bitter quarrel with his wife and ends on a crumbling, overgrown jungle airstrip somewhere deep in war-torn Congo. With the cockpit on fire, the pilots of his plane...
8) Cloudburst
Author
Series
Jack Courtney adventures volume 1
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The epic adventure begins ... the first book in the Jack Courtney adventure series ... for young readers, starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney. Jack Courtney has lived in London his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends with them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems...
10) Endangered
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novel volume 16
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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...
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