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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. Treasure Island was originally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey comes a captivating story of a man who's given up, a woman who won't let go, and a race to find a treasure that could bring them wealth and so much more.Life in Glory, Wyoming, population fifty-one, isn't exactly exciting. The dusty old town isn't even on the map. And for rancher Luke McCallister, that's just fine. Broken by tragedy, the stoic cowboy spends his time at his Ten Bar Ranch or down at...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The aromas of wild thyme and Highland heather waft through Lochdubh, home to M. C. Beaton's eccentric policeman, Hamish Macbeth. Yet what the irascible constable smells in his latest case is the acrid scent of fear as an entire town is entrapped in something dark and deadly. Yet, as he deftly investigates the summer's high crimes and misdemeanors, he attracts the attention of his superiors. They feel a promotion and transfer will give him a larger...
5) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Even the ghosts have secrets in Dead Water...
For Celeste Blackmoore and her sisters, locating a hundred-year-old buried treasure in the gold mining ghost town of Dead Water sounds like an easy job ... until they find themselves facing threats from both sides of the grave.
While dealing with a ghost who wants revenge, a sheriff who wants to lock them up and a thieving stranger who wants them out of town, the girls find themselves using their unique...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story begins when renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain agrees to help Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good search for King Solomon's legendary cache of diamonds. Eager to find out what is tru, whit is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of the mines, the tireless adventurers delve into the Sahara's treacherous Veil of Sand, where they stumble upon a mysterious lost tribe of African warriors. Finding themselves in deadly peril...
10) Guilty treasures
Author
Series
Creative woman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a secret passage and room in her home, Paisley mansion, takes Shannon McClain and the Purls of Hope on a treasure hunt.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 52
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy and her friends become involved in a search for lost treasure.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to uncover the truth"--
15) Storm tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simon and his sister Ellen have to solve the mystery of the hidden treasure if they want to save the island lighthouse they call home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The first in a daring new Scottish historical series about a woman determined to return Scottish treasures to the Highlands and the only man who can help her--the lover she once abandoned."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 67
Publisher
Wanderer Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
The Hardy Boys are given clues which send them in search of the treasure hidden by the Outlaw of the Pine Barrens.
18) What a treasure!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mole digs with his new shovel, finding useful things for the other animals and a new friend for himself.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
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