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1) The Aeneid
Author
Language
English
Description
"This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
Series
Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean volume Volume 2
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
5) Subterranean
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Making their way beneath the Antarctic ice toward the center of the world, a team of specialists traverses rocks, caverns, and underground rivers in darkness, not knowing the incredible wonders--and terrors beyond imagination--that lie ahead.
Author
Series
Underworlds volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Rescuing Dana from the underworld after making a dangerous pact with Hades, Owen, John, and Sydney tackle mythological Cyclopes who have taken over the power plant in Owen's hometown with the intention of building a monster army.
7) Reflection
Author
Series
Twisted tale volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
100 million B.C. : Scientists discover time travel with horrible consequences when they inadvertently bring a giant carnivorous dinosaur back to modern Los Angeles.
Journey to the center of the Earth : A film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel that describes what happens after a special forces team, consisting of three women, are sent through space but get lost in a subterranean world full of danger and beauty, and discover many unusual things while...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years of human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap. But will it mark a new chapter in our development. or our extinction? A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today. In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist...
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process"--
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished--an...
14) Her dark wings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Coping with the sudden death of her ex-best friend, eighteen-year-old Corey finds herself plunged into the Underworld, where she must contend with mythical beasts, her own burgeoning powers, and the arrogant, handsome Lord of the Dead. "The great love of Corey's life has always been her best friend, Bree: closer than sisters, their bond is unbreakable. Or so Corey thought, until Bree betrays her in the worst way possible. When Bree's sudden death...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the son of Billy Bob Bomzie shows up at Sunny Babbling Brook Elementary, things begin to change for the worse on all levels and so now Fred and Anthony must accept the help of the Phantom of the Mop to rid their school of the evil forces that have taken over.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows he'll be called much worse before it ends. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way. With a powerful artifact and his own future at stake, Envy is determined to win, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A melancholy masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century. In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey...
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 350L
Language
English
Description
"Pat thought being mayor was hard--but now, it's more than just the village that's in danger. Captain Cookie has been struck by a terrifying vision. He's learned that if anyone dares disturb the Cookie Islands, it will trigger the destruction of all the realms of existence! And Jen has just found the final clue to find the islands by herself! Now Pat and his friends have to go back to the Overworld, through the Nether, and to the Underworld to stop...