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Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock -- a band of genetically modified children who can fly -- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Publisher
Music Box Films ; Antzworks ; New Zealand Film Commission ; Anthony Biello
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
5) Fast ice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous ... and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world...
Series
Special publication volume 63
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
"Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! When a David Attenborough-esque narrator explains that turtles are found everywhere except Antarctica, one determined turtle sets out to prove him wrong. After recruiting other non-Antarctic animals along the way--much to the narrator's dismay--the turtle and his adventurous friends travel through fields, forests, and cross an entire ocean to reach their goal. But what exactly...