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1) Who was Christopher Columbus?

Author

Bader, Bonnie

Series

Who was ?
Who Was?

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Offers insight into the historical events that prompted Columbus' efforts to establish new trade routes to the Indies, his struggles to obtain financial support for his voyages, and the important discoveries that caused him to become known as the "Great Admiral of the Seas."

2) Follow the dream

Author

Sís, Peter

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

1991.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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In a pictorial retelling, Christopher Columbus overcomes a number of obstacles to fulfill his dream of sailing west to find a new route to the Orient.

3) Where do you think you're going, Christopher Columbus?

Author

Fritz, Jean

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Book, Kit

Description

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Discusses the voyages of Christopher Columbus who determined to beat everyone in the race to the Indies.

4) Who was first?: discovering the Americas

Author

Freedman, Russell

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook

Description

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"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.

5) Who was Leif Erikson?

Author

Medina, Nico

Series

Who was ?
Who Was?

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...

6) Columbus

Author

D'Aulaire, Ingri

Publisher

Doubleday

Language

English

Description

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A life of the Genoese weaver's son who sought to prove the worldis round, telling how he studied map-making in Portugal, waitedlong years for financial and material support from Isabella ofSpain, and finally made four voyages to the New World.

7) Christopher Columbus

Author

Krensky, Stephen

Series

Step into reading. Step 2 book
Step Into Reading Level 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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A simple account of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America.

8) Christopher Columbus: navigator to the New World

Author

Asimov, Isaac

Series

Isaac Asimov's pioneers of science and exploration

Publisher

Gareth Stevens Children's Books

Pub. Date

[1991]

Language

English

Description

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Describes the life of Columbus as a young man, and as an explorer who marshalled the best technology of his time to explore new lands.

9) Christopher Columbus: voyager to the unknown

Author

Levinson, Nancy Smiler

Publisher

Dutton

Pub. Date

1990.

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for awestern route to India.

10) Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the New World

Author

Young, Robert

Series

Let's celebrate

Publisher

Silver Press

Pub. Date

[1990]

Language

English

Description

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Describes the life of Christopher Columbus and how he came to discover the New World.

11) The story of Columbus

Author

Ganeri, Anita

Series

Dorling Kindersley readers. 2 Beginning to read alone

Publisher

Dorling Kindersley Pub

Pub. Date

2001.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

12) Forgotten voyager: the story of Amerigo Vespucci

Author

Alper, Ann Fitzpatrick

Publisher

Carolrhoda Books

Pub. Date

[1991]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

13) Juan Ponce de Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth

Author

Harmon, Daniel E

Series

Explorers of new worlds

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

1999.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the Spanish explorer and governor of Cuba, who attempted to find the Fountain of Youth in the New World.

14) Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World

Author

Gallagher, Carole S

Series

Explorers of new worlds

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

1999.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.