adventures and adventurers

"Who are the Master Builders? Do they have what it takes to stop Lord Business's evil plans?"--Back cover.

Humphrey the classroom hamster has adventures going to the library, learning about the ocean, and sailing across a pond on a sailboat.

Ten exciting stories feature famous explorers and their dangerous jungle adventures. Stories include: Gonzalo Pizarro s search for the city of El Dorado, Mary Kingsley's fall into a pit of stakes, Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z, Henry Walter Bates adventure in the Amazon, and Captain Barth Blake's search for Inca gold in the Amazon. Simple maps and feature boxes add additional details and help readers better understand the time period in which the explorations took place. IN SEARCH OF EL DORADO (1541) Gonzalo Pizarro s ill-fated mission to find the legendary city of gold. DRESSED TO SURVIVE (1893) Mary Kingsley survives falling into a pit full of sharp stakes in the African jungle thanks to her voluminous skirt. CAPTURED BY RIVER PIRATES (1830) The Lander brothers are captured while exploring the Niger and held to ransom... WALLACE AND THE SNAKE (1859) Wallace has a close encounter with a poisonous snake as he sleeps in his canoe in the jungles of S.E. Asia... PERCY FAWCETT AND THE LOST CITY OF Z (1906) Fawcett s last expedition in the Amazon jungle with his son and son s friend ends in their disappearance. IN THE HANDS OF CANNIBALS (1555) Hans Staden, a German soldier and explorer, is held captive by the Tupinamba people of Brazil who are going to eat him... . MUNGO PARK S JOURNEY DOWN THE NIGER (1805) The harrowing tale of Park s final voyage down the Niger, fighting off native attacks in canoes, finally ends with him diving into the river as his boat becomes stuck midstream... A NATURALIST IN THE AMAZON (1848) Henry Walter Bates comes across two children with a spider on a string lead, while travelling in the Amazon rainforest collecting samples. EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION (1886 1889) Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition becomes both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing darkest Africa , and notorious, for the deaths of so many of its members. CAPTAIN BARTH BLAKE AND VALVERDE S GOLD (1887) The search for missing Inca gold in the Amazon...

Velma, who has spent three years with the Taram, a secret underground order, is surprisingly named Kachina, the fabled chosen empowered to fight for the fate of the world, but first she must kill someone she loves to fulfill the prophecy.

In the city of Bricksburg, Emmet discovers that he is the special one meant to stop Lord Business from using the powerful Kragle to freeze the universe. Emmet must avoid the Super Secret Police, and with the help of his friends and their imaginations, save the universe. Includes a quiz.

An ordinary Lego minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.

McKenna and her best friend planned for over a year to defer their freshman year of college to hike the Appalachian Trail all the way from Maine to Georgia, so when her friend backs out McKenna embarks alone on a physical and emotional journey that will change her life forever.

Emmet, an average Lego figure who is mistaken as the only person who can save the world, is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop the evil tyrant Lord Business from gluing the universe together.

The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of backgrounds, and included master navigators such as Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan the latter of whom was the first to circle the globe as well as the often ruthless conquistadors of the New World such as Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes.