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Black Knights Inc volume 8
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"Dan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him four thousand miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He's hot on the trail of a rogue CIA agent selling classified government secrets to the highest bidder, when Penni DePaul arrives on the scene. Suddenly the stakes are higher, and keeping Penni safe becomes Dan's number one priority. A lot has changed since former Secret Service Agent...
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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly...
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Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
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11) Mountain
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Pub. Date
2007
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Photographs and text describe the animals of the central Andes mountains, especially their daily struggles to survive in the harsh environment.
12) Just one more
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Pub. Date
c2002
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"Hector doesn't know what he's in for when he steps onto a rickety old bus, high up in the Andes Mountains. With no wiggling room to spare, he watches in disbelief as the driver lets more people and animals scramble aboard the swaying and bouncing bus until it's ready to burst!..."
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Series
Magic Tree House fact tracker volume 34
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"An overview of llamas, chinchillas, and other Andean animals, as well as a general look at the region and its people"--
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
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Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
18) The Andes
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Focuses on the longest range in the world, including its geography, climate, plants, animals, peoples, and history.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This book introduces readers to the colorful Rainbow Mountain in Peru and how this natural phenomenon came to be. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, infographics, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.
20) The Incas
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Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Through photographs of artifacts, the reader will explore the beginning of the Inca empire to the death of its last great ruler, Huayna Capac, in 1525.
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