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Download or read book Buried Alive written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
Book Synopsis Mysteries in Our National Parks: Buried Alive by : Gloria Skurzynski
Download or read book Mysteries in Our National Parks: Buried Alive written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was that man in the Park Service uniform who brought Jack and Ashley Landon into the wilds of Alaska’s Denali National Park along with their friend Nicky Milano? Whoever he was, he has given them a dogsled ride to certain death unless somebody finds them soon. Their troubles are about to get a whole heap deeper as the first rumblings of an avalanche turn into a deafening roar!
Download or read book Buried Alive written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2003 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
Book Synopsis Welcome to Yellowstone National Park by : Teri Temple
Download or read book Welcome to Yellowstone National Park written by Teri Temple and published by Childs World Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Yellowstone National Park, introducing its geography, wildlife, climate, trails, and history.
Book Synopsis The Legend of Deadman's Mine by : Joan Lowery Nixon
Download or read book The Legend of Deadman's Mine written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhile on vacation at a dude ranch, the Casebusters chase a horse thief/divDIV Sean and Brian Quinn can’t think of anywhere cooler than the Austin Dude Ranch. Although neither has ever ridden a horse, they’re positive that playing cowboy is going to become their favorite pastime. But before they can learn to rope and ride, they’re going to have to practice their other favorite hobby: solving mysteries./divDIV /divDIVA racehorse has been stolen from the neighboring farm, and the ranch’s owners think that their horses may be the next to disappear. To find the missing pony, Brian and Sean will have to confront something even more scary than horse thieves: the ghost of the crazy old gold prospector who is said to haunt a nearby abandoned mine. Whether the culprit is living or dead, Brian and Sean must catch him faster than they can say, “Giddy-up!”/div
Book Synopsis The Ghost of Ernie P. by : Betty Ren Wright
Download or read book The Ghost of Ernie P. written by Betty Ren Wright and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you’re being bullied—by a ghost? Find out in this story that “nicely blends the comic and the sinister” (Booklist). Three months ago, when Ernie P. Barber came to Treverton from Los Angeles, he’d been like a missile aimed at trouble. And Ernie had chosen Jeff to be his best friend, whether he liked it or not. “You’re my buddy, old buddy,” Ernie would always say, “. . . and I’m going to cut you in on my T.S.P.” But when Ernie dies as a result of a freak accident, Jeff’s troubles are only beginning. The ghost of Ernie P. starts to haunt Jeff. At first, Jeff thinks he’s going crazy. But when the letters T.S.P. (Ernie’s code for Top Secret Plan) and some newspaper clippings keep mysteriously appearing, Jeff is convinced that Ernie’s ghost wants him to carry out the T.S.P. alone—whatever it might be. Not until Jeff faces terrible danger and stands up to the ghost of Ernie P. does the mystery of the T.S.P. unravel.
Book Synopsis Mystery on Skull Island by : Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Download or read book Mystery on Skull Island written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1724, Rachel Howell leaves New York for South Carolina . . . and plunges into a dangerous world of pirates and hidden treasure that threatens her family’s future When New York–born and –raised Rachel Howell sails for South Carolina to be reunited with her father, the last thing she expects is to be attacked by pirates! She’s lucky to escape with her life, but the attackers take a pearl necklace belonging to her dead mother. Things go from bad to worse when Rachel arrives safely in Charles Town and learns her father is getting married again. The one bright spot is her friendship with Sally Pugh, the daughter of the local tavern owner. Until Papa’s bride-to-be arrives . . . and forbids Rachel from seeing Sally. Determined to remain friends, Rachel and Sally search for a secret place to meet. They discover a hidden island in the Charles Town port, containing a sinkhole filled with quicksand, rocks with mysterious markings, . . . and a human skull. But when the girls are stranded overnight and overhear men in a hidden lagoon, they realize they’ve stumbled onto something big. It could destroy Rachel’s father’s business . . . and Rachel’s life. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Book Synopsis My Wounded Island by : Jacques Pasquet
Download or read book My Wounded Island written by Jacques Pasquet and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's an invisible creature in the waves around Sarichef. It is altering the lives of the Iñupiat people who call the island home. A young girl and her family are forced to move to the center of the island for refuge from the rising sea level. Soon the entire village will have to relocate to the mainland. Heartbroken, the young girl and her grandfather worry: what else will be lost when they are forced to abandon their homes and their community? Addressing the topic of climate refugees, My Wounded Island is based on the challenges faced by the Iñupiat people who live on the small islands north of the Bering Strait near the Arctic Circle.
Book Synopsis Who Killed Darius Drake? by : Rodman Philbrick
Download or read book Who Killed Darius Drake? written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick comes a delicious, fast-paced whodunit about two socially outcast boys who set out to find jewels hidden for a century--and unwittingly flush out a murderer. In award-winner Philbrick's new page-turning mystery, Arthur "Bash Man" is the school thug, paid with candy to bully and threaten other students. When genius orphan Darius Drake employs Arthur to help him discover the origin of a suspicious threat, written in blood, they uncover a mystery that involves Darius's estranged grandfather, who was imprisoned for forging evidence in a search for a long-lost diamond necklace worth millions. The boys make the dangerous decision to search for the jewels themselves -- and in the process, they discover that the car crash that killed Darius's parents was not an accident at all. Who will be next?Where are the diamonds? And who is stalking the boys? In his first mystery for children, Philbrick delivers yet another suspenseful, unpredictable tale filled with twists and turns that will leave readers breathless.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Baby H by : Kathryn Reiss
Download or read book The Strange Case of Baby H written by Kathryn Reiss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-year-old girl searches for answers when she finds an abandoned baby in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 Clara Curfman is awakened from a recurring swimming dream by her big, furry sheepdog, Humphrey. Suddenly, her bed is moving and the room is shaking from side to side and up and down. The floor starts pitching like a giant ocean wave, and her books dance right off the shelves. As her parents and their neighbors cope with the earthquake’s devastating aftereffects, Clara makes a stunning discovery: A baby has been left on the doorstep of her family’s boarding house. Is the abandoned infant a victim of the earthquake—or something more sinister? The only clue to her identity is a silver rattle engraved with the letter H. On a quest to find Baby H’s parents, Clara meets a boy named Edgar who has been orphaned by the earthquake. Their search takes them on a winding trail of danger that will test the true limits of Clara’s courage. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Book Synopsis The Clue at Black Creek Farm by : Carolyn Keene
Download or read book The Clue at Black Creek Farm written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Black Creek Farm's food is discovered to be contaminated, Nancy Drew comes in to investigate whether or not the food has been sabotaged.
Book Synopsis Home is Beyond the Mountains by : Celia Lottridge
Download or read book Home is Beyond the Mountains written by Celia Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Download or read book Deadpoint written by Nikki Tate and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayla loves climbing. But she prefers to climb indoors, with all her safety harnesses in place and soft mats to land on. Her climbing partner and best friend, Lissy, is much more adventurous and loves the outdoors. When Lissy starts hanging out with Carlos, the new thrill-seeking guy in town, Ayla wants to keep an eye on her and finds herself tagging along on a weekend climbing trip up Black Dog Mountain. But things go very wrong when Lissy and her dad, the only adult in the group, are badly injured high on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the risks of climbing become very real. Ayla and Carlos need to figure out how to get help, and every decision they make could have catastrophic consequences.
Download or read book Polaris written by Michael Northrop and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crew of children must pilot a ship across unfamiliar seas while a strange creature lurks belowdecks in this fast-paced survival story from New York Times bestselling author Michael Northrop. Alone at sea, with only the stars to guide them...The proud sailing ship Polaris is on a mission to explore new lands, and its crew is eager to bring their discoveries back home. But when half the landing party fails to return from the Amazon jungle, the tensions lead to a bloody mutiny. The remaining adults abandon ship, leaving behind a cabin boy, a botanist's assistant, and a handful of deckhands -- none of them older than twelve. Troubled by whispers of a strange tropical illness and rumors of a wild beast lurking onshore, the young sailors are desperate to steer the vessel to safety. When one of their own already missing and a strange smell drifting up from below deck, the novice crew begins to suspect that someone -- or something -- else is onboard. Having steeled themselves for the treacherous journey home, they now have more to fear than the raging waters of the Atlantic...
Book Synopsis Welcome to Yosemite National Park by : Pamela Dell
Download or read book Welcome to Yosemite National Park written by Pamela Dell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a brief history and a description of the geographical highlights of Yosemite National Park.
Book Synopsis Escape from Fear by : Gloria Skurzynski
Download or read book Escape from Fear written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something in the Virgin Islands National Park is destroying the coral reefs and causing the hawksbill sea turtle to disappear--and the Landons are trying to figure out what. Jack and Ashley soon become involved with the son of a U.S. diplomat who is anxious to save an island woman. What secret do they share? Includes a park map.
Download or read book Virtual War written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images. Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war. When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return. His decisions will affect not only these three virtual warriors, but all the people left on earth.
