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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
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On the road volume 3
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English
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Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers -- a man who has helped us see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before. After retiring from CBS News in 1994, he set out to spend a perfect year in America -- traveling to his twelve favorite American places, in just the right month for a visit to each. With his well-known...
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Miss Peregrine volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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James Patterson presents two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities. Tell me your best story: Anne McWilliams has lost everything. Her marriage fell apart so she turned to photography, only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne takes to the road to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 9
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
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Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Opening My Cultural Lens is the account of Gail's lifetime on the road--an illuminating exploration of the traditions, rituals, and cultures of some of the world's most remote populations. Through captivating stories and photographs, Gail gives readers vibrant views to the farthest reaches of the roads less traveled. By chronicling the many faces of our shared human experience, Opening My Cultural Lens takes a hammer to stereotypes and cultural barriers,...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
15) The car
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support, and completely human-powered. But Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that, even though ten years earlier a tragic accident raised doubts that he'd ever walk again normally. O'Brady's quest drew him into a head-to-head battle with British SAS Captain Louis Rudd, also striving to be "the first." Enduring Antarctica's sub-zero temperatures...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
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