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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Audiobooks for the Youngest Listeners
Spring Into Reading Children's Fiction and Non-fiction
Spring Into Reading Children's Fiction and Non-fiction
Description
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
xiv, 210 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book traces the adventures of explorers Richard Bangs and Christian Kallen as they raft down rivers in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia, selecting rivers with gradients that ensured white water. Along the way they combined physical challenge with anthropological and ecological investigation. Bangs and Kallen encountered hidden African tribes, observed Peruvian ceremonies revering the Inca and discovered for themselves that...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
348 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, is a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong...
Author
Publisher
Fretwater Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 456 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Bert Loper, the Grand Old Man of the Colorado, was born the day Major Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado in 1869. He died just days after the first motorboat had passed through Grand Canyon. He knew every river runner in between, and by the time of his death at 80 years old, had run more of the Colorado than anyone. But it was never easy--orphaned an abused, Loper had to make his way along the bottom of society, often as...
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