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"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the...
2) Holes
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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.
3) Doomwyte
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Redwall series [chronological order] volume 21
Redwall series [order of publication] volume 20
Redwall
Redwall series [order of publication] volume 20
Redwall
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English
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The Redwallers face some of their most dangerous villains yet in a treacherous hunt for long-lost treasure.
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English
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Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike. Determined to buy it back, Gus agrees...
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How to train your dragon volume 2
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search of a pirate's treasure.
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[Thea Stilton and ] volume 3
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010.
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English
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When their marine biology professor disappears, the Thea Sisters search for him, and together they try to stop some wicked mice from stealing a treasure lost in a shipwreck, after which they head to China to find another treasure.
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Geronimo Stilton volume 18
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005.
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English
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Geronimo's sister Thea convinces him to help her find a haunted pirate treasure buried on a desert island, even thought he hates travel and ghosts.
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Treasure hunters volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
13) The dungeoneers
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Walden Pond Press, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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English
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When his gift for pickpocketing is noticed by the mysterious Finn Argos, Colm begins training to become a member of Thwodin's Legions, a strange group of warriors, mages, and hunters who search for treasure.
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Candlewick Press
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2017.
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English
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When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot...
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Mr. Penguin volume 1
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2019.
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English
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Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin and his colleague, Colin the spider, try to find a treasure rumored to be buried in The Museum of Extraordinary Objects before bandits do.
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[Thea Stilton and ] volume 4
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010.
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English
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When an archeologist friend of Paulina's disappears, the Thea Sisters go to Peru to look for him, where they face many dangers as they search for him and the legendary lost city filled with Inca gold that he was seeking.
17) Tomb explorers
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Raintree
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[2013]
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English
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This book examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs and their treasures, including the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Sumerian royal tombs of Ur, the Terracotta Army of ancient China, the Mayan tombs of Palanque, and the Oseberg ship burial.
18) Treasure hunters
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Treasure hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents.
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2018.
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
20) Blue sea burning
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Chronicles of Egg volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"In this final installment to the Chronicles of Egg trilogy, Egg and his friends must defeat the ruthless slave trader Roger Pembroke"--
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