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3) Rain player
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.
4) Middleworld
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Deep in the jungle, Max and Lola battle a zombie army, mutant cave spiders, and even the ancient Maya Lords of Death"--Provided by publisher.
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Formats
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
11) Tree Girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
12) Colibrí
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
15) One wrong move
Author
Series
Jeopardy falls volume 1
Formats
Description
"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...
Author
Series
Joshua files volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When his father, is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves the 2012 Mayan prophecy, UFOs and alien abduction.