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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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This book presents a fictionalized account of a real-life burro named "Brighty", who lived in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River from about 1892 to 1922. He was given the name Bright Angel after Bright Angel Creek, but everyone called him Brighty. The determined little burro earns the loyalty and affection of everyone he encounters in this classic story from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the...
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English
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Introducing an extraordinary new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat...and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy...
4) Downriver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
13) Grand Canyon
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, wildlife, and people of Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Author
Publisher
Aux Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tomomi Hanamure, a Japanese citizen who loved exploring the rugged wilderness of the American West, was killed on her birthday May 8, 2006. She was stabbed 29 times as she hiked to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Her killer was a distressed 18-year old Havasupai youth. Pure Land is the story of this tragedy. But it is also the story of how McGivney's quest to understand Hanamure's life and death wound...
15) The Grand Canyon
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Series
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the Grand Canyon was formed, its early exploration, and the plants and animals found there.
16) Grand Canyon
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
A river winds through the landscape, eroding the rock for millions of years, shaping a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as ... Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that live within its walls, Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through this wondrous place, discovering life both present...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
There are canyons all over the planet, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona is not the biggest. Yet because of the spectacular colors in the rock layers and fascinating formations of boulders, buttes, and mesas, it is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Starting with a brief overview of how national parks came into being, this book covers all aspects of the canyon--how it formed, which early native people lived there, and what varied...
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