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Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Among the ten films in this section are a transatlantic crossing in a Zeppelin dirigible, a 1925 stencil-colored trek through the Belgian Congo, World War I-era Parisian street kids in Montmartre, a 1916 visit to Los Angeles, a 1927 sound film of pilot Charles Lindbergh embarking on his New York-Paris flight, an early 1930s portrait of New York City's Coney Island, and a promotional film made for Josephine Baker's revue at the Folies-Bergère, Paris....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lucy and Edmond, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the magic land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if timid Baby Lincoln broke free of her bossy sister and set off on an unexpected journey?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taste the World! It's truly a feast of wonder: Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia's "Threads of God" pasta? Egypt's 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo travels to Ratzikistan to help his grandfather write a guide book about this remote area.
11) Black sun
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose...
12) A map of days
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"It's been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to face her again. Now they must race to find an artifact said to be crafted by Leonardo da Vinci himself--perhaps the strangest Guardian of all. Along the way, they uncover another layer to Galina's sinister endgame ... and there might not be enough time to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Camp Half-Blood, the only safe haven for demigods, comes close to being overrun by mythological monsters, Percy must find his best friend Grover, who is prisoner on an island in the Bermuda Triangle, and then set out to save the Camp.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
This terrific book gives hope to everyone who desires the fun and freedom of dropping everything and hitting the road to foreign ports.--Jeri Sedlar, co-author of Don't Retire, REWIRE! The Sell-Your-House, See-the-World Life! Reunited after thirty-five years and wrestling a serious case of wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions and live abroad full-time. They've never looked back. With just two suitcases, two...
16) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Arthur Less, after the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis, sets out on a literary adventure across the United States, during which he must finally face his personal demons.
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