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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
High up in the Andes there is a beautiful mountain valley, hidden away from the rest of the world. There Cusi, the Indian boy, lives with Chuto, the old Inca llama herder, helping him guard the precious flock. The walls of the llama corral are part of a ruined temple left from the days of old when the Incas ruled Peru. Cusi helps with all the llamas--grazing them, shearing them, training them--but his own special pet is black Misti. Misti accompanies...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the suburbs of Lima, Peruvian archaeologists make a startling find - dozens of hasty burials with bones disfigured by violent, traumatic injuries. The victims are from a fierce, little-known battle between club-wielding Inca warriors and the Spanish cavalry. The battle is a decisive turning point that helps explain a long-standing mystery about the Spanish conquest of Peru--Container.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this Lost city of the Incas, yet it remains an enigma. NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site"--Container.
