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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
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A surprisingly prophetic science fiction story, first published in 1870, about an electric submarine, its mysterious captain, and the adventures of a French scientist and his companions have while prisoners on board the boat.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
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In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
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The enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945....
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A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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The Dragon in the Sea is a riveting thriller of a submarine crew trapped in the depths of the sea, hunted by one of their own.
In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East's continental shelf. But, the last twenty missions have never returned. Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply...
10) H.M.S. Unseen
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A British submarine captured by an Iraqi terrorist proceeds to shoot down aircraft, including one carrying the U.S. vice-president. No one realizes this, the planes having simply disappeared. When the mystery is finally solved, an admiral goes after him. By the author of Nimitz Class.
12) Tempest down
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When a collision between the Tempest D, a top-secret U.S. submarine, and a Chinese sub leaves both subs trapped under the Antarctic ice, a U.S. military team code-named L.A.S.E.R. is sent on a perilous rescue mission under the polar icecap.
13) Dixie city jam
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
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Somewhere off the coast of Louisiana, an old Nazi submarine lies buried in the sands, hidden by thick seaweed and salty waters. Dave Robicheaux is the only person who has ever discovered it, and now Hippo Bimstine, New Orleans' largest mover and shaker, wants him to find it again.
14) U.S.S. Seawolf
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Armed with stolen U. S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III--a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U. S. fleet, the 9, 000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf,...
15) Black Wind
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
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In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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When the testing of a nuclear-powered invisibility device goes awry, Captain Rudolph Von Dorn is transformed into the evil Captain Cyclops, blowing up ships and islands at will--and the Kid Squad, with the help of Von Dorn's daughter Jenny, is called upon to reverse the effects of the accident and save the world.
17) Empire rising
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Trident deception volume 2
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"Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan...
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 4
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"While trailing a Chinese nuclear attack sub, Jerry Mitchell, the captain of USS North Dakota, is shocked to see the Chinese boat torpedo a Vietnamese merchant ship. This blatant act of aggression is the opening gambit in a war that has blindsided the U.S. and quickly embroiled all nations in the western Pacific. These nations, bound together in the newly formed Littoral Alliance, have begun a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy...
19) The iron island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"A German submarine has torpedoed the steamship Maiden! The damaged ship is an iron island in the sea. The Oliver family arrives to repair the vessel. When the Germans return to sink the ship, they capture Samuel's father and uncle. Can Samuel rescue his family?"--Back cover.