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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations,...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Sea monster Ernest is starting his first day of school. But starting school is a big job! Fitting in when you're a sea monster is tough enough, and there's so much to learn and do: reading, singing, playing hide-and-seek with the fishermen, lunchtime in the algae patch.
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Hoping to secure her career as an ace reporter in spite of limited happenings in quiet Frog Neck Lake, Amy Namey teams up with Judy Moody to search for an exciting news story involving the famed Great Virginia Sea Serpent.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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The Nebula-winning novel has been optioned by Bill Mechanic (executive producer of The New World) and Pandemonium Films (Coraline). It is in pre-production with plans to begin filming in Spring 2012.
"Inspired by tales of ancient sea-monsters, McIntyre spins a marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France's glittering Sun King.... McIntyre vividly re-creates a
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"In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the story her mother had always...
11) Sea monsters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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How big is a giant squid? What is a dragon-fish? How do deep-sea creatures find food? What do scientists think some mythical sea monsters might really be? It's Jack and Annie's very own guide to the strange creatures of the sea including ; Sea monster legends ; giant pacific octopuses ; prehistoric sea monsters ; deep-sea exploration and much more.
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Princess in Black volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A sleepy Princess in Black takes a much-needed vacation and rides her bicycle to the seaside, where she plans to nap in a hammock, but her peace is disrupted by a roaring sea monster.
13) Stargazer
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Land of Elyon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Alexa and her companions unwittingly lead Abaddon, now in the form of an enormous, horrible sea monster, to the secret community known as the Five Stone Pillars when they go to bring the people living there home.
14) Deep Trouble II
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 58
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Billy Deep and his sister are spending another summer with their uncle in the Caribbean. While swimming they notice that the fish seem to be growing into monster-sized sea creatures.
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Daughter of the pirate king volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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"As an assassin working for the Pirate Queen, eighteen-year-old Sorinda is surprised when Alosa's next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a handpicked crew on a rescue mission. Unfortunately, her sailing master is twenty-year-old Kearan. He may be the best helmsman the Pirate Queen has, but Sorinda finds him a real pain in the arse. Sadly, there are few places on a ship to hide from an attentive man. As the crew of the Vengeance...
17) The water horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
19) Sea monster!
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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When a legendary sea monster starts making waves in the Sea of Wrenly, Prince Lucas and his friend Clara travel to the Island of Primlox seeking information that might help them calm the beast.
20) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...