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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los últimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gustó la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can't come up with a lot of money fast....
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Michael was born with special electrical powers -- and he's not the only one. His friend Taylor has them too, and so do other kids around the world. With Michael's friend Ostin, a tecno-genius, they form the Electroclan, an alliance meant to protect them from a powerful group, the growing Order of Elgen, who are out to destroy them. The leader of the Elgen, Dr. Hatch, has kidnapped Michael's mother, and time is running out. After narrowly escaping...
10) The sunflower
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding. heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
11) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Series
Tom Trelawney volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest - until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Excavation
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a corpse five centuries dead in the South American jungle portends the a wonderful and terrifying secret waiting to be unleashed upon humankind.
Author
Series
Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Uno se da cuenta de que las cosas son distintas por la manera en que acaricias y te acarician.» Mejor el fuego recrea los avatares de la fantasía, la violencia y el placer en la vida de un joven homosexual en la Lima de los años noventa. Una historia donde el sexo, el miedo, la belleza, la crueldad y el amor son atributos de una memoria que los hace indistinguibles: esquirlas adheridas a un cuerpo en trance de revelaciones, asumido, según describe...
18) The green house
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt: Bonificia, a young Indian girl...
19) Summer days
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
You Again. A group yoga tour to Peru is the last place Meredith expects to see her workaholic ex-boyfriend, Sam. Seven years have changed everything--except Meredith's regret at abruptly running away. Yet amid the magnificent views and ancient ruins, a new chance may be waiting.
Summer Memories. There's nowhere Ellen would rather nurse her wounds after her ex's betrayal than Ogunquit, Maine--a little beach town where she spent idyllic childhood summers....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
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