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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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To her Microsoft-guru husband, Bernadette is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she's a best friend and, simply, Mom. Bee has aced her report card and claimed her reward: a family trip to Antarctica. For Bernadette, who has become increasingly agoraphobic, such a trip is problematic. Then Bernadette disappears.
5) Antarctica
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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An introduction to the continent of Antarctica, its geographical features, visitors, and animals.
7) Antarctica
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the landforms and animals found in Antarctica, explains what scientists do there, and tells what life is like for them.
8) Antarctica
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the continent of Antarctica, including its landforms, regions, ice shelves, plant and animal life, and the scientists who perform research there.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Explore Antarctica--the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth--in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series. Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a land that always seemed out of reach. This book introduces readers to this desert--yes, desert!--continent that holds about 90...
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Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Sophie Scott is only nine years old, but she's going to Antarctica on an icebreaker with her dad, the ship's captain. During the voyage to Mawson Station and back, Sophie keeps a diary. She sees icebergs, penguins, seals and whales. She makes new friends, wonders at the southern lights and even becomes stranded in a blizzard!"--Jkt. flap.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 4
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Walter Dean Myers presents a thrilling record of Antarctica and the expedition parties that have uncovered the frozen continent throughout history. Walter Dean Myers brings the dramatic race to the South Pole to life in Antarctica, tracking the explorers of the South Pole - including James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, and Richard Evelyn Bird - and the dangers they encountered there, as well as their contributions to science. The heroism and adventure...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
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Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.
18) Antarctica
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the climate, geography, exploration, and plant and animal life of the continent so cold that no one lives there.
19) Antarctica
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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An overview of the history, geography, climate, and wildlife of Antarctica.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Introduces Antarctica, presenting the history of its exploration and the current research efforts underway to investigate its geography, climate, and fossils of the past, and monitor the effects of global warming on its glaciers.
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