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1) Life of Pi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
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"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to...
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English
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A New York Times bestseller. For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the popular website www.askthepilot.com, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know: -How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them -Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety. -The real story on delays, congestion,...
4) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
6) Pilots
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Prepare for takeoff! Being a pilot means having to stay calm under pressure and make critical decisions thousands of feet above the ground. Filled with engaging text and colorful pictures, this title takes children behind the scenes of air travel to learn about the people in control. Additional features include a table of contents, informational captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, a Think-About-It section,...
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English
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Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
10) Going by plane
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Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Fly Guy volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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While riding in the car with Buzz and his father, Fly Guy gets blown out of the window and finds himself riding in a truck, then a boat, a train, an airplane, and maybe even a rocket.
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Peppa Pig's friends are traveling all around the world, and Peppa is going to visit them! Join Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig as they fly an airplane to the jungle, the mountains, the desert, and even to the South Pole to see Suzy Sheep and the penguins!
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English
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies...
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Español
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Hay muchas maneras de viajar, y ahora los lectores en movimiento pueden revisar el vocabulario de los vehículos en este volumen atractivo y vibrante. Trenes, aviones e incluso scooters son algunos de los divertidos modos de transporte que se ofrecen. El texto a nivel se combina con coloridas fotografías, y ambos ayudan a los lectores a decidir qué manera elegiran para ir a algún lugar divertido.
There are so many ways to travel, and now on-the-go...
15) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky. For first-time flyers eager to earn their wings or experienced flyers curious about who controls the plane, Fly shows readers the entire process that helps a plane climb high into the air and then land safely at its destination."--Page [2] of cover.
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
And they're off! Now that your youngster is starting to move independently, explore other means of transport. Let's sing, dance, and play as we travel around the globe using cars, boats, airplanes, and more. On their journey through Season 7, they'll uncover the world's sights, sounds, and rhythms.
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Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A ten-day plan to help panic sufferers overcome panic attacks by tapping into their unconscious procedural memory. Written by a licensed clinical social worker. Includes specific instructions for dealing with common panic triggers such as MRIs, bridges, airplane travel, and tunnels"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs featuring four Tom Hanks films into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Cast away: A Fed-Ex systems engineer crash lands on a deserted island and must make both physical and emotional changes in order to survive,
Captain Phillips: Based on the true story of the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in over two hundred years, this movie follows Captain Richard Phillips and the US - flagged MV Maersk Alabama...