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Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 11
Description
The reader arrives in Mexico to explore a friend's disappearance amid the Mayan ruins and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to thirty-nine possible endings.
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sera has seen the future, and it is terrifying. Unfortunately, she can't do anything to prevent the Cataclysm while stranded with Dak and Riq thousands of years in the past. Their only hope lies with the ancient Maya, a mysterious people who claim to know a great deal about the future. Is there more to these ancients than meets the eye?
4) Rain player
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.
5) Middleworld
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.
6) Me oh Maya!
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam find themselves whisked by The Book to the main ring-ball court in Chichin Itza, Mexico in 1000 A.D., where they must play for their lives against a Mayan High Priest who cheats.
7) Tree Girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When their village is destroyed in the Guatemalan Civil War, Tomasa and her family, except her mother and brother, who have been taken by the authorities, begin the long trek north in search of somewhere they will be safe.
Author
Series
Joshua files volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Back home in Oxford, Josh tries to resume his normal life and make sense of his Mayan adventures, but soon it becomes clear that he cannot escape destiny as he becomes more certain than ever that his father's death was no accident and his closest allies may not be trustworthy.
14) Colibrí
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
Author
Series
Jaguar stones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
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