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Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. To thwart the Sphinx's designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn must venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven in...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones. He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar, filled with a magic once reserved for the gods--magic some Romans would kill for..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sam (a puzzle master) and Martina (a history whiz) become involved in a dangerous quest to find seven keys left behind by Benjamin Franklin and a secret society of descendants, which, when gathered together, unlock a powerful weapon, so the middle schoolers must solve the puzzles, find the artifacts before the bad guy does, and save the nation.
Author
Series
Seven wonders volume 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Journeying to the ancient city of Babylon when Bhegad tracks down Marco, the companions face a daunting choice involving a dire trap and a long-lost figure from Jack's past.
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books/Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following clues provided by the secretive Reddimus Society, the four Alden siblings travel to a dingo sanctuary in Australia and to Shakleton's hut in Antarctica to deliver the fifth and sixth artifacts, and then they work to unmask the traitor traveling with them.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
593 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. To thwart the Sphinx's designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn must venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven in...
Author
Series
Lost tribes volume 1
Publisher
Move Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Ben is given a challenge to beat a unique computer game, he can then join his globe-trotting uncle on the adventure of a lifetime. Ben, his sister April, friends Grace, Carlos and Serise team up to help him. These five friends could never imagine their ordinary parents are scientists on a secret mission. When their parents go missing, they are forced into unfathomable circumstances and learn of a history that's best left unknown. Now they must...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017, 2018.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To find the...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Theodosia Throckmorton's father is the curator at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Theo's mother is an archaeologist just returned from a dig in Egypt, who brought back with her the Heart of Egypt, a legendary amulet that bears a curse so black and so vile that Theo believes it will crumble the British empire from within and start a war too terrible to imagine. Neither of her parents can see the black magic and ancient...
13) Blood and ink
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
213 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the struggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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"Buck and Toni and the Buck Bray TV crew head to Utah's Canyonlands National Park to film an episode. There Buck and Toni find themselves in danger at the Dinosaur Stomping Grounds, as they try to discover who is behind the vandalization and theft of the area's ancient artifacts"--
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herself--and her brother, Cabell--alive. Ten years later, rumors are swirling that her guardian vanished with a powerful ring from Arthurian legend....
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons...
17) The melted coins
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 23
Pub. Date
1970
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation.
Frank and Joe Hardy suspect that their best friend Chet Morton is the victim of a summer school swindle and offer to help get his money back. While probing a baffling burglary at the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State they investigate Zoar College located nearby. Clues that Frank and Joe uncover...
Author
Series
Prophecy of days volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While attending a boarding school that allows her to travel around the globe, Caity continues her mission to fulfill a Mayan prophecy and mobilize the world's young people to stop the devastating global reign of the Fraternitas.
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 3
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"It's been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to face her again. Now they must race to find an artifact said to be crafted by Leonardo da Vinci himself--perhaps the strangest Guardian of all. Along the way, they uncover another layer to Galina's sinister endgame...and there might not be enough time to stop...
Author
Series
Prophecy of days volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caity Mac Fireland of San Francisco accompanies her parents to an isle off the coast of Scotland where she finds a Mayan relic and, guided by a motley crew of advisors, uncovers an incredible secret that an elite group of power-brokers will stop at nothing to control.