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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-graders --and former best friends-- Jen and Martin are geared up to attend one of the most exciting geocaching field trip ever in the New Mexico desert. When their van gets a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, they decide to bike off on their own to get a head start. Without warning, a blinding wall of dust and debris barrels toward them. Separated from their field trip group and in the desert alone, they will have to use all their knowledge...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin while learning about why these deserts are in danger and how to save them"--
Author
Series
Wilderlore volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One year after saving the sea, Barclay Thorne sets off for a new kind of adventure--the Symposium, a series of courses that all apprentices of the Lore Keeper Guild need to pass before they can take their licensing exam. And although Barclay is excited to explore the wonders of the Desert and reunite with old friends, he's less excited about the Tourney, the Symposium's traditional, good-natured prank war among the four apprentice tracks. As an Elsie,...
24) Desert Jungle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the remote Sonoran Desert in Mexico, a young boy visits his grandfather. The boy has little interest in exploring; he'd rather play on his tablet. But when the bag containing it disappears--snatched by a coyote!--he heads out on his own in search of it. The desert is a frightening place: unseen eyes seem to watch him; thorny cacti loom overhead. And what are those scrunching, scratching, snapping sounds?
But later, with his grandfather's guidance,...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes.
Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit.
One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...
27) Dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
What will I do with all these breaths I may not have had?
After Avalyn nearly died from an asthma attack, her parents moved her to the fresh, dry air of Clear Canyon City, Arizona. And for the last ten years, she's been able to breathe. That is, until Adam shows up.
Quiet and disheveled, Adam is an instant target for the bullies who have plagued Avalyn and her friends. As Avalyn gets to know him, she begins to suspect that the sudden, strange increase...
Author
Series
Wild rescuers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stacy would do anything to protect the Taiga where she lives with the pack of intelligent wolves who raised her. But when humans start to encroach on their forest, their only choice is escape to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. The Mesa, with its canyons, snakes, and coyotes, will be like nothing the pack has ever seen. Even in this unfamiliar territory, Stacy is determined to rescue animals in need. But as she and her wolves face...
30) Tumble
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.