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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In a prequel to "The Hunger Games," eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win the Games.
Author
Series
The Hunger Games volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is...
5) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
9) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that shes made it out of the bloody arena alive, shes still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And whats worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katnisss family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting,...
10) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters-- but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no intention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon...
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Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive.
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable...
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable...
14) Brian's return
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
15) Volcano!
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kevin have to rely on their instincts to survive when a volcano erupts while they are camping and their lives are put in danger by the lava.
17) The Martian
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
18) Stung
Author
Series
Stung volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes their sting to turn children into ferocious killer beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the beasts out, but Fiona wakes up on the wrong side of the wall.
20) Shipwreck!
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Skylar, Gabby, and Miles find their whale-watching trip taking a turn for the worse when they are stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean with only a few supplies and the threat of sharks all around.
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