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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol--The Sunflower. It is while working at the orphanage that Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal...
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Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 1
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The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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Black Knights Inc volume 8
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"Dan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him four thousand miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He's hot on the trail of a rogue CIA agent selling classified government secrets to the highest bidder, when Penni DePaul arrives on the scene. Suddenly the stakes are higher, and keeping Penni safe becomes Dan's number one priority. A lot has changed since former Secret Service Agent...
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In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. On the sprawling, crumbling grounds of the old house, something is wrong; a statue moves, his grandfather's pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness.When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to a mountainside, they are surprised to find farmers nearby. Then they learn that the farmer's baby llama has been stolen, and Jack and Annie vow to bring the little animal back to its owners. But the journey is treacherous--they must climb to the peak of Machu Picchu and climb back down in order to complete this mission. Jack and Annie have been on many dangerous travels, but can they survive this...
10) Evil Star
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Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
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Quick response research report volume 105
Pub. Date
[1998]
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How disaster relief operations can be more effectively and efficiently coordinated.
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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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2022.
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Monkey explorers Otis and Lewis are back and ready to solve another one of history's greatest mysteries! These chimps off the old block don't monkey around! Watch them jump in their state-of-the-art hot air balloon and speed to a new learning adventure! This time around Otis and Lewis are looking into the mysteries of Machu Picchu!
16) Peru: the land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs examine the history, geography, natural resources, agriculture, and transportation systems of Peru.
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Michael Vey volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world.