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9) Encounter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
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English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
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Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.