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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Treasure Island" during which Jim Hawkins gives Squire Tralawney a packet left behind by a sea captain staying at Jim's parents' inn, and which pirates are trying to find.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Following Sterlings spectacularly successful launch of its childrens classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic StartsClassic Starts Pirates, buried treasure, and action aplenty--thats whats served up in this fine story, mates, and kids will eat it up. After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little does he realize hes boarded a pirate ship, and that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After Rafe, a runaway slave, stows away on a ship that wrecks off an island near the Eastern Shore, he is helped by thirteen-year-old Molly, and the two of them share an adventure involving pirates, spies, and a lost treasure.
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"There's treasure in Oakdale! To find it, Wishbone, Joe, Samantha, and David must enter the condemned Trumbull barn. This reminds Wishbone of the high-seas tale Treasure Island, and he imagines himself as the orphaned Jim Hawkins, who follows up a map to excitement -- and treasure! Soon Jim finds himself face to face with dangerous pirates and involved in the adventure of a lifetime. Only a special breed of hero -- one with canine courage and...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A compelling argument that connects the lost treasure of the Knights Templar to the mysterious money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, that has baffled treasure hunters for two centuries
• Fascinating occult detective work linking the Cathars, the Scottish Masons, and Renne-le-Chateau to the elusive treasure pit on Oak Island
• Draws on new evidence recently unearthed in Italy, France, and Scotland to provide a compelling solution to one of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"We are witnessing the greatest shift of wealth from poor to rich in history. In the United States alone, the wealthiest avoid paying an astonishing $53 billion in taxes each year. Nicholas Shaxson, in league with the Tax Justice Network, dives deep into the secret world of tax havens and takes us to hot spots from Switzerland to Panama to Delaware in a riveting narrative of how society loses through illegal tax evasion. With jaw-dropping stories...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and educator Alma Flor Ada are filled with family love and traditions, secrets and deep friendships, and a gorgeous, moving picture of the island of Cuba, where Alma Flor grew up. Told through the eyes of a child, a whole world comes to life in these pages: the blind great-grandmother who never went to school but whose wisdom and generosity overflowed to those around her; the hired hand...
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