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"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
4) In 1492
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Rhyming text describes Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...
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English
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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and have the adventures he has always been denied. When disaster strikes in...
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English
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In addition to investigating all serious claims as to who was the first to step foot in the Americas, the author delves into the continent's most ancient mysteries to show budding historians that historical sleuthing takes years of hard work, puzzle solving, and comparing legends and artifacts.
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.
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Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.
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