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Mystery
A photo becomes an important clue in a murder case in Freeze Frame. In Nobody Lives in Apartment N-2, neighbors think they may have found a ghost! In The Return of the Eagle, the final ride of a ghost train reveals a truth about two teenagers. A stolen stamp collection leads three friends to attempt to trap the culprit in Stick Like Glue. When a popular football player mysteriously dies on the field, it's up to one blind classmate and one deaf classmate to solve the mystery in Touchdown.
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Ancient Egyptian Mysteries
Travel to ancient Egypt and explore the facts and mysteries of how the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built, how the pharaohs of Kush took over Egypt, the religious revolution of the pharaoh Akhenaton, the process of preparing mummies, and how the Rosetta Stone unlocked the meaning of hieroglyphics.
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Ancient Greek Mysteries
Let the history, legends and myths of ancient Greece capture your students' imagination, from Alexander the Great's conquest of much of the Middle East to the development of Western philosophy, the tradition of the Olympics, the secrets of reading oracles, and the puzzle of the lost city of Atlantis.
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Fantasy
In The Cooler King, a bully’s victim finds inspiration for dealing with his fears in the life of actor Steve McQueen. An online gamer gets pulled into the world of feudal Japan in Ken and the Samurai. There’s more to magic tricks than sleight of hand in The Rabbit Tattoo. In Under the Waterfall, a boy enters a fantasy realm to find his kidnapped brother. A high school football player’s wishes come true in The Wishstone, but instead of finding happiness, he walks into a living nightmare.
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Adventures
This five-book fiction series features teenagers facing physical and psychological challenges. In Cliffhanger, a boy looks for the courage to rescue his mountain-climbing friend. Swamp Furies highlights an alligator-filled journey in the Louisiana bayous. Town bullies are The Seal Killers in a tale of conflict between people and nature. Mean Waters relates the fears a boy must face to save a friend from a flood. In The Great UFO Frame-Up, a teacher turns to his advantage two students’ plan for a phony alien abduction.
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Natural Disasters
Nature unleashes its forces without regard to people or property. Blizzards, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, tornadoes, and wildfires are all featured in this nonfiction series that also relates tales of survival and heroism, with a bit of the science behind these natural phenomena.
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Disasters
These moments in history recall the death and destruction caused by both natural and manmade disasters around the world. The Disaster series probes the loss of the space shuttle Challenger’s crew, the oil-well fires set by Saddam’s forces in Kuwait during the first Gulf War, the Korean airliner shot down by the Russians, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and the Mount St. Helens eruption.
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Chillers
Three friends go on a camping trip before going their separate ways, but what they find is an Alien Encounter. In Ghost in the Desert, a strange vision unites a boy and a girl. A deserted house is the setting for two cousins who find that the house may be occupied by more than the two of them. A city boy moves to a small town and finds an old car that takes him to another time, where he is Trapped in the Sixties. The Water Witch poses a puzzle: Is it imagination, or has a dead girl come back?
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Extreme Customs
What do customs mean in a given culture? This high-interest nonfiction series takes a look at the origins, practices and meaning of body modification (piercing, scarring, even plastic surgery), tattooing, burial rites, food traditions (everything from scorpions to fermented shark meat), and fashions in clothing and hair decoration.
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