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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
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Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
GN 1070L
Language
English
Description
"I'll bet you 20,000 pounds that I can travel around the world in 80 days!" said Phileas Fogg. The time is 1872, when trains and steamships are the fastest means of travel. Across egypt and India, through Hong Kong, Japan and America he goes, encountering wonders along the way and braving many dangers. He meets a beautiful Indian princess and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for arrest...Can they keep Phileas Fogg from winning his bet?
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Travel with a team of scientists, and Bill Paxton, 12,500 feet to the wreckage of the Titanic. Follow two mini robotic cameras as they explore the nooks and crannies of the ship, and experience the breathtaking images of the long ago glamorous ship. Astonishing footage, flawless digital animation, and ghostly re-creations of the ship's final hours are seamlessly combined to orient the viewer at an intersection of tragic past and awe-inspiring present,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
12) Race for freedom
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
She is a self-centered woman from a privileged family. He is a preacher with a sense of duty to love the unlovable. She is determined to solve a family mystery. He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote regions of Montana. On a steamboat journey up the Missouri River, Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck find themselves opposite in every way ... except in wondering if their paths will ever cross again.
16) Robert Fulton
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Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the talented inventor and resourceful businessman, with special emphasis on his development of the steamboat.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In 1896, fourteen-year-old Megan joins her sister and family on their steamboat for the summer riding up the Mississippi River towards St. Paul, Minnesota, and through all of their adventures, Megan realizes what is her "true calling."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Twain's firsthand portrait of the steamboat age and the science of riverboat piloting recalls the history of the Mississippi River, from its discovery by Europeans to the writer's own time." *** "Mark Twain's famous account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and his own experiences as a pilot. Its historical sketches, its frequent passages of vivid description, and its humorous episodes combine to make [this] a masterpiece of the...