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1) Riptide
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and...
2) The kingdom
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jonathon Payne and D. J. Jones, former members of a top secret, very special unit of the armed forces, race to recover a lost treasure that could rewrite history, before it is destroyed by a group of men who will stop at nothing to conceal the secret.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
After tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet. In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her...
5) Deep trouble
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Gabe Lasley rescues Shannon Dysart, who is looking for a city of gold in order to vindicate her dead father, the two team up to search while being plagued by rival treasure hunters and a host of other difficulties.
Author
Series
Owl diaries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eva Wingdale and her owl classmates are on a camping trip to the other side of the forest, where one of the assignments is to make useful inventions--but Eva and Lucy become totally distracted by the legend of Nellie Wingdale, founder of Treetopolis and her buried treasure, and never finish their project.
8) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Cutter Cay volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Half-brother Jonah has a lot to prove on his first treasure-hunting trip with the Cutter brothers, but he struggles to resist the allure of a beautiful companion in order to avoid a deadly enemy and prove his worth on the sea.
9) Treasure
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Be an eyewitness to the exciting search for precious artifacts, hidden or lost through the centuries and rediscovered by archaeologists and treasure hunters.
10) Yuma gold
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ben Ruby is stepping out of prison after an eight-year lock up to embark on a journey into dangerous territory. He must not only outwit an vengeful foe, but also outrun a breach in a Colorado River dam that threatens to flood an entire valley.
11) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
12) The prophecy
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Receiving a mysterious cache of documents written in codes and ancient languages, a perplexed woman enlists the help of Jonathon Payne and David Jones before discovering that she holds important predictions by the prophet Nostradamus that violent forces are determined to suppress.
Author
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
17) Hurricane
Author
Series
Cutter Cay volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When he takes his ex-wife Addison's megayacht in order to search for a valuable wreck, Rydell Case finds himself, along with Addison, tangled up in conspiracy, murder, and an international art heist.
18) Gargantis
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder....
Author
Language
English
Description
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie--a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance--mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 12
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After meeting Herman the Treasure Hunter during a career fair at Emerson School, every second-grader is looking for treasure and finding it--except for Ivy and Bean.
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