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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. Treasure Island was originally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
3) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.
6) Windcatcher
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
7) Alphaboat
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text full of puns tells the story of the letters of the alphabet sailing off to look for a buried treasure.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to uncover the truth"--
9) Storm tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simon and his sister Ellen have to solve the mystery of the hidden treasure if they want to save the island lighthouse they call home.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton--editor of "The Rodent's Gazette"--his adventurous sister Thea, a correspondent for the paper, and their cousin Trap travel to a distant island to search for the treasure shown on an old map Thea discovers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Geronimo gets lost looking for hidden treasures in the Gobi Desert, he comes across giant dinosaur bones.
16) A simple plan
Author
Language
English
Description
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of resourceful amateur sleuths, thriller-leaning cozies, and readers of Jenn McKinlay's Library Lovers Mysteries. From international bestselling author Alicia Bessette comes an all-new mystery series featuring Callie Padget a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks who is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past"--
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An 800-year-old treasure ... an ancient cypher wheel ... a brutal murder ... and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the...
Author
Series
National treasure volume no. 1
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Samuel Gates, newly arrived in the New World with his brother William, finds himself on a quest for a mysterious treasure hidden somewhere in the Jamestown colony and connected somehow to the disappearance of the Roanoke colony.
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