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Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from...
Author
Series
Flashback Four volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman's thrilling Flashback Four series, four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. Blends fascinating real history with an action-packed adventure!
This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic. Their mission? Capture a shot
...5) Hawk
Author
Series
Hawk volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.
Author
Publisher
Disney · Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a distress plea goes up from the isolated planet Minfar, Resistance heroes Rey, Poe and Rose hear the call! Together they will face down a First Order battalion, terrifying flying creatures, and a weapon that could change the course of the war!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series reaches hilarious new heights with jokes, puns, and gut-busting gags for every adventure. Jump into page after page of adrenaline-pumping puns and sweat-inducing zingers that will take you high up in the sky, deep down inside caves, beneath the ocean, and out into space. Risk these jokes, riddles, and puns on your own or challenge your fellow adventurers."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pokemon adventures. Original series volume 24
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red is downhearted after being defeated by the mythical Pokémon Deoxys and fears that Professor Oak has given up on him, while Silver discovers secrets of his past in Viridian City.
15) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica alone, without support and completely human powered. Yet, Colin O'Brady was determined to do just that, even if, ten years earlier, there was doubt that he'd ever walk again normally. From the depths of a tragic accident, he...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling look at 25 female adventurers from around the world who made their marks on history. Women have long been badass adventurers, loop the looping as trick pilots or braving the grueling climb to the top of Mount Everest. But their stories have not always got the recognition they deserve. Here are the stories of 25 remarkable women who have soared the skies, climbed the world's highest peaks and sailed around the world. There are the famous...
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