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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
2) Deep trouble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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While visiting their uncle, Billy and Sheena do a little underwater exploring. Uncle Deep warns them to stay away from the coral reef, but Billy can't resist. He's not alone in the reef, there is something lurking, something dark and scaly... half-human, half-fish!
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A mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story, master harpoonist Ned Land, and Aronnax's faithful assistant Conseil join the expedition. After much fruitless...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities? In maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the...
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Octonauts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When the shadows in the ocean go missing, the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, must travel to the Sea of Shade to find them.
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Sigma Force novels volume 17
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"To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion...
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Octonauts volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, meet a frowning fish, they try their best to make it smile.
13) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
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English
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Explores methods and devices scientists use to explore the ocean, walking readers through the history, current developments, and potential for future discoveries, as well as the challenges scientists currently face. Includes infographics, discussion questions, and two "Scientist Bio" features highlighting people who've done important work studying the deep sea"--
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Octonauts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When the Octonauts, a team of eight animals that explores the ocean, help a lonely monster, everyone learns the value of friendship and individuality.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Did you know the deepest parts of the ocean are still largely unexplored? Courageous explorers risk their lives to go to these great ocean depths. Other explorers journey into deep volcanoes, caves, and mines. Who are they and why are they seeking a glimpse of the world deep below the earth's surface?
17) Little Wonder
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A mother sends her child off to explore the wonders of the undersea world in imagination.
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Expedition Deep Ocean tells the inside story of this exploration of one of the most unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. The expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden landscapes, discovered previously unknown life forms and began to piece together how life in the deep oceans affects our planet -- but it was far from easy. Vescovo and his team...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Climb aboard Alvin, the famous deep-sea submersible credited with helping to find the Titanic, and take a trip two miles down to the bottom of the ocean.Experience a day in the life of an Alvin pilot and join scientists at the seafloor to collect samples and conduct research. Along the way, discover what one wears, eats, and talks about during a typical eight-hour trip in a underwater craft and find out more about the animals that live deep in our...