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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol--The Sunflower. It is while working at the orphanage that Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A new girl has joined Lola Levine's second-grade class. When they get off on the wrong foot, they are forced to spend time together...and learn they have more in common than they thought"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Un cuento bilingüe basada en la vida, los sueños y los logros de tres generaciones de niñas artísticas, creativas e imaginativas a medida que crecían en la familia de la autora. "--
"A bilingual story based on the lives, dreams, and accomplishments of three generations of creative, imaginative, artistic girls as they grew up in the author's family. "--
7) Excavation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting; where earth-shattering discoveries -- and wealth beyond imagining -- could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. Here where the perilous journey ends, in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
8) Evil Star
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Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons...
13) The Ugly One
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman.
Author
Pub. Date
©1991
Description
"Daniel Peters has done a prodigious amount of work i reconstruction the history of one of the most interesting peoples inhabing the Americas, and one of the least known, the Incas of Peru. Using this knowledge brilliantly, he has written a beautiful, tragic, and heroic account of theri last years, from 1511 to 1530, when these superior Indians were overwhelmed y Spanish conquerors." James A Michener.
15) The gold eaters
Author
Pub. Date
p2015
Description
A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada.
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
"Set variously in Peru, China, The Caribbean, California, and the American West, here are tales of men and women exploring the landscapes of their own innocence and desire; confronting violence, estrangement, and the disillusionment of war; or encountering the hope, fierce integrity, defiance, and wisdom of others"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lola is ecstatic to learn that their family will visit her favorite aunt in Peru, where she and Ben discover the wonderful adventures to be found in Lima while struggling to stay out of trouble.
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