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41) Anna Hibiscus
Author
Series
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She lives with her whole family in a wonderful house. There is always somebody to laugh or play with. She loves to splash in the sea with her cousins and have parties with her aunties. But more than anything else in the world, Anna Hibiscus would love to see snow.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes.
45) Islandborn
Author
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
47) Shatterproof
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill are no strangers to impossible tasks. After seven of their relatives were kidnapped, the siblings scoured Europe for the priceless artifacts Vesper One demanded in exchange for the hostages. But then the Cahill kids are given an assignment that pushes them to their breaking point-a journey to a legendary city. Amy and Dan know they can't afford to fail, yet they're running out of options. . . and running out of time.
48) The wooden camel
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Etabo wants nothing more than to race camels, but when times are tough and his chances disappear, he must be content with dreaming about racing them, until his sister makes a herd of wooden camels to help him imagine.
Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus lives in amazing Africa. She loves singing to her two baby brothers, Double and Trouble. But when she is chosen to sing for her school in front of the president, her throat runs dry and her bones turn to stone. Can Double and Trouble save her?
54) Eclipse
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
California lawyer Damon Pierce finds his own life in danger when he accepts a desperate plea from his former lover to defend her freedom fighter husband against bogus charges involving the corrupt government of the oil-rich nation of Luandia.
55) Caravan
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Caressa Horvath, raised in the corrupting atmosphere of a traveling carnival, marries an anthropologist named Jacob Bowman, who takes her on a journey to North Africa. Jacob gets himself killed by a band of Bedouin who spare Caressa's life. The only one of her party left alive, Caressa is forced to join the caravan on a harrowing journey across the African desert.
Author
Series
Ryan Quinn volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishersCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ryan Quinn and his best friend, Danny, stowaway on a plane to Africa in an attempt to save two revolutionary musicians whose identities have been compromised by a traitor within the Emergency Rescue Committee, while Ryan's parents, and ERC operatives, try to track the turncoat back in New York.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
Author
Publisher
Claim Stake Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (17 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
When twin brothers Gannon and Wyatt arrive in Botswana for an African safari, they get much more adventure than they bargained for. While on this amazing journey, they encounter all of Africa's Big Five--elephants, rhinos, cape buffalos, leopards, and lions--and, as they detail in their journal, discover that the most dangerous predator in the African bush is not the king of beasts, but man himself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.