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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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Secrets of Droon volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon!
Splursh! Ka-thoom! Eric, Julie, and Neal are sailing with Princess Keeah. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a magical ocean storm. They are shipwrecked on an island that belongs to one of Lord Sparr's witches. Now Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to get off the island before Lord Sparr gets them! Tony Abbott is the author of more than ninety books for young...
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Vision Forum Ministries
Pub. Date
©2009
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Presents a Christian perspective on the theory of evolution. The documentary follows Doug Phillips, his son Joshua Phillips, and a team of scientists and investigators as they go to the Galápagos Islands and attempt to reveal "where Darwin went wrong."
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
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The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2012
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The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
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e-artnow Editions
Pub. Date
2013
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Treasure Island + The Mysterious Island (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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After a scientist discovers he has reached the center of the Earth, he must help his nephew and a friend travel through a world of strange creatures to get back to the surface; after deciphering a code that leads to a legendary island where his grandfather is lost, a teenage boy partners with his stepfather to find the island and rescue his grandfather.
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2016.
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"Three stars--of fire, water, and ice--have fallen from the skies, and now three women and three men have come together to find them. But on the quest for the final star, they'll discover that possessing it won't be enough to stop the destruction of themselves--and of their world... As the hunt for the Ice Star leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017, 2016.
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Presents the true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.
"In 1917, on the day before Valentine's Day, eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. When the police gave up, a mysterious woman in black vowed to find her. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis. A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely...
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Young Kelpies
Pub. Date
08/17/2021
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Oi, you snivelling pig-dogs! Are you ready for a Viking adventure? Velda is a small girl with a big axe. The only problem is, everyone thinks she can't be a proper Viking because she's "just a little girl". PURLEASE! She sets sail with Freya, captain of the dragonship Valkyrie, and her notoriously ferocious crew for a life of awesome adventure (and very loud belching). But when the Valkyrie and her crew are captured by the Queen of the Saxons, Velda...
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Three thieves volume 5
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Dessa convinces the smuggler Quinn to transport her, Topper and Fisk to the mysterious Island of Astaroth. Dessa is convinced her twin brother, Jared, who was abducted years earlier by the Queen's chamberlain, is being held on the island. However, soon after setting sail, they are overtaken by a pirate ship commanded by the King of Pirates, whom they discover is interested in only one treasure on board: Dessa's map to the location of Astaroth! Will...
14) Queen of storms
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Dark and powerful forces threaten the world of Garn once more in this second novel in legendary New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic fantasy series, the Firemane Saga. Hatushaly and his young wife Hava have arrived in the prosperous trading town of Beran's Hill to restore and reopen the fire-damaged Inn of the Three Stars. They are also preparing for the popular midsummer festival, where their friends Declan and Gwen will be...
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Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
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"From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina-and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been...
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Bandai Namco Entertainment America Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Forever legendary. Forever pirates. The Straw Hat Crew are hit by a storm and shipwreck on the mysterious island Waford. After meeing Adio and Lim, they realize the way forward in their journey is to re-visit their past as they uncover the secrets of the island and what makes it so legendary" --Container.
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Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
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Graphic Novel. Taking you all the way from the genesis of the original series to the stunning conclusion of the first season to the exciting opening of the 2nd season of stories and more ... Jungle Girl delivers action, excitement, twists, thrills, and the finest illustrations of dinosaurs and the female form found in comics today! Cho and Murray take the action underground and underwater as more clues regarding Jana, the undisputed Queen of the Jungle,...
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Disney Games
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Join Mickey & Friends on a quest to explore the mysterious island of Monoth and recover three mystical books to save the world from disaster! Choose your favorite character and unlock special abilities as you perform high-flying platforming feats, solve fun puzzles, and take on epic boss battles. Run, swim, swing, and jump your way through a beautiful yet mysterious island and discover rich biomes, intriguing characters, and hidden secrets.
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Duke Classics
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Travel to an enchanted land borne from the imagination of Frank L. Baum, the author of the beloved Wizard of Oz series. The mysterious island of Yew is as fantastical as Oz, but this story offers more that will please fans of traditional and medieval-inspired fantasy tales, including warring nights, magical castles, fairies, and much more.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A story of secrets, loss, and the betrayals of memory: a lyrical novel of an aging woman confronting her romantic past under the mysterious skies of her island home. Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier comes to the island when her new husband, Simon, is dispatched by his industrialist father to find...
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