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EXPLORER ACADEMY
SERIES II: VELA

THE SAILOR CIPHER

Sometimes, it takes discovering the voice you never knew you had to become the person you were always meant to be.

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COMING
APRIL 23, 2024!

The explorers are back for their second year of global travel with a new ship, Vela, and a new adventure that puts Sailor York in the center of the action!

 

Fresh off winning the North Star, the award given to the Academy's most promising first-year explorer, Sailor worries she may not be able to meet the expectations of her teachers and friends. Still, she is determined to dive back into school with her usual feisty spirit, until a long-buried secret threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to achieve.

 

When Sailor's sister goes missing, she enlists her friends, Cruz, Emmett, and Lani to help in the rescue, a move that plunges the explorers deep into the dangerous and deadly world of animal trafficking.

 

More codes, puzzles, and mysteries await in the first book in the new EXPLORER ACADEMY VELA series from National Geographic!  For ages 8 and up.

READ THE EXCITING CONCLUSION TO  

EXPLORER ACADEMY
SERIES I: ORION

Explorer Academy 6:
THE DRAGON'S BLOOD

From the jungles of Borneo to the forests of Tasmania, the explorers embark on their most challenging expeditions yet. For Cruz, it is a time of self-discovery as he seeks to make sense of the family mystery he is slowly unraveling. Who is betraying him and why? More surprises are on the way as Cruz faces new revelations about his destiny and those determined to keep him from fulfilling it!

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EXPLORER ACADEMY 7:
The FORBIDDEN ISLAND

Get set for some thrills and surprises with the epic finale to Cruz's first year at the Academy. Will Cruz recover the last piece of his mother's formula and deliver it to its final destination before Nebula can stop him? Will he, finally, root out the explorer spy before it's too late? And which explorer will win the coveted North Star Award? All will be revealed in the final installment of the EXPLORER ACADEMY series!

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Visit ExplorerAcademy.com for more book excerpts, character info, codebreaking games, explorer videos, and more!

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