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The ice limit
Par Douglas J Preston. 2000
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd wants to own the largest meteorite in the world. It's buried on a remote island in an…
icy region off the southern coast of Chile. To retrieve it, he hires the engineering firm of Eli Glinn and controversial scientist Sam McFarlane. Some violence and some strong language. 2000Revolutionary war on Wednesday (Magic Tree House (R) #22)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2000
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General…
George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River. For grades 2-4. 2000. For grades 2-4. 2000Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House (R) #21)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2000
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War, where they meet…
Clara Barton, the famous nurse. For grades 2-4. 2000. For grades 2-4. 2000Stage fright on a summer night (Magic Tree House (R) #25)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2002
When the magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to London in 1600, they meet William Shakespeare. He needs…
two boys to be actors in his play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Jack is chosen, but has a bad case of stage fright. For grades 2-4. 2002. For grades 2-4. 2002The fall of light
Par Niall Williams. 2001
Saga of the Foley family in nineteenth-century Ireland. Francis and his four sons, their mother gone, flee from their tenant…
farm after Francis steals a telescope. When their father is presumed drowned, the four brothers eventually separate and find their own destinies at home and abroad. 2001Triss (Redwall Ser.)
Par Brian Jacques, David Elliot. 2002
Triss the squirrelmaid, Shogg the otter, and Welfo the hedgehog escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the…
sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda--a pure ferret--her brother Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall. For grades 5-8. 2002The Big Burn
Par Jeanette Ingold. 2002
In the summer of 1910, drought in Idaho and Montana has led to forest fires. On August 20, three teens--homesteader…
Lizbeth, fire fighter Jarrett, and buffalo soldier Seth--are caught in a blaze and face the choice of fleeing or staying to confront the conflagration. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Horse thief: a novel
Par Robert Newton Peck. 2002
Chickalookee, Florida; 1938. First, rodeo worker and seventeen-year-old orphan Tullis Yoder loses two fingers on his first bull ride. Then,…
when he learns that his only family--the thirteen horses he cares for--are going to be sold for dog food, he steals them--with help, of course. For junior and senior high readers. 2002The other side of dawn
Par John Marsden. 2002
The war to defeat Australia's invaders is drawing to a close. Ellie and her guerilla band of teenagers assist the…
liberators from New Zealand in a final assault. But peacetime resettlement isn't easy. Sequel to The Night Is for Hunting (BR 13778). Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Icebones
Par Stephen Baxter. 2002
When Silverhair's daughter, Icebones, awakens from a thousand year sleep, she finds the world changed and the Fireheads gone. Now…
the mammoths must once again survive on their own. It is up to Icebones, and her accumulated knowledge of their history, to lead them. Sequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 2001Crispin: the cross of lead
Par Avi. 2002
In 1377 England, the manor steward falsely accuses a thirteen-year-old orphan of murder. Before he runs away, the boy learns…
his name from the village priest. On the road with Bear, a juggler, Crispin learns who his father is--and the reason the steward wants him dead. For grades 6-9. Newbery Medal. 2002Longtusk
Par Stephen Baxter. 2001
As a twelve-year-old renegade calf in his own clan, Longtusk senses his destiny to become a hero. Setting out on…
his own, he is captured by the Fireheads. Yet even in captivity Longtusk gathers the knowledge that will help him escape and return to his old clan. Sequel to Silverhair (BR 14631). 1999Wild man island
Par Will Hobbs. 2002
Fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group in Alaska to visit the wilderness site where his archaeologist father died.…
Stranded on an island by a storm and injured, Andy is rescued by a Newfoundland dog and his owner--who live in a cave. For grades 6-9. 2002Moby-Dick
Par Herman Melville. 1991
The sailor Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale in this novel which includes…
chapters on the natural history of the whale, the whole making an allegory of human potential and limitations. 1851Silverhair
Par Stephen Baxter. 1999
The mammoths have survived many springs, but their numbers are dwindling. Only one family remains, and Silverhair, soon to become…
a mother, looks to the future. But first, the mammoths must face the two-legged menace Silverhair calls the Lost. Prequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 1999Have space suit-- will travel
Par Robert A Heinlein. 1958
High school senior Kip Russell longs to go to the moon but is kidnapped by space pirates. He meets other…
prisoners on a flying saucer--an eleven-year-old girl named Peewee and a strange creature they call the Mother Thing. For junior and senior high readers. 1958Captain Blood
Par Rafael Sabatini. 2003
Great Britain, 1685. When physician Peter Blood is accused of treason against King James II for treating a wounded rebel,…
he is sentenced to slavery in Barbados. Once on the island he escapes to become a buccaneer--and eventually governor of Jamaica. 2003 introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 1922Birmane: roman (Littérature française)
Par Christophe Ono-dit-Biot. 2007
Décidé à changer le cours de sa vie, un jeune homme s'envole pour le pays de tous ses fantasmes avec…
un projet fou : décrocher l'interview du plus grand trafiquant d'opium de tous les temps. Un scoop sans prix. Double problème : César est un amateur, et la Birmanie une dictature. A Rangoon, où la paranoïa le dispute à la moiteur tropicale, il rencontre une jeune femme au charme trouble. Médecin humanitaire passionnée et déterminée, elle se montre parfois mélancolique, lointaine... Fasciné, il en tombe amoureux. En lui venant en aide, elle va le faire plonger au coeur d'un pays où tous ses repères volent en éclats. Jusqu'à le mettre sur le chemin d'une figure mythique de la rébellion politique réfugiée dans la jungle : la Femme-Tigre. De la jeunesse dorée de Rangoon aux ethnies du Triangle d'Or, des villages lacustres du lac Inle à la vallée des Rubis, voici l'itinéraire aventureux d'un héros de notre temps. En quête d'amour et d'absolu dans le pays le plus fermé, le plus enivrant, le plus sensuel de toute l'Asie. -- 4e de couvMoonshiner's gold
Par John R. Erickson. 2001
Texas Panhandle, 1927. After his father's death fourteen-year-old Riley, his younger brother Coy, and their fiddle-playing grandfather must find a…
way to save the family ranch from a group of moonshiners. For grades 5-8. 2001Mystery at Chilkoot Pass (The American Girl Collection #Bk. 17)
Par Barbara A. Steiner. 2002
At the start of the Klondike gold rush in 1897, twelve-year-old Hetty travels to the Canadian mines with her family…
and their friends. But someone along the trail is stealing things from her family, and Hetty becomes determined to find the thief. For grades 4-7. 2002