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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
An unexplainable plane crash kills the family of a crime reporter. A year later he meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash and holds the possibility of a secret, but she disappears. He searches for answers and runs into a powerful and shadowy organization.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lyon's perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard a plane piloted by her husband. The tension increases when the black box is recovered and reveals shocking rumors that the crash may have been caused by her husband. Could her husband have secretly been a terrorist? Was her entire life with him a lie?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of...
6) Skeleton man
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a plane bound for Costa Rica crashes in deep jungle, the tail section breaks free and nineteen teenagers miraculously survive. Joel Aspinall, son of a local politician and student rep on the school's council, is quick to take on the mantle of leadership, to organize everyone until a rescue party arrives. But the plane was crashed on purpose, no one knows where they are and no rescuers are coming. To make things worse, Joel's decisions lead to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
9) Stranded
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Has Jennie stumbled into something she'll never escape?Jennie McGrady is thrilled to be taking another flying lesson from Gram. But when menacing clouds roll in, Gram must take over the controls for a crash landing-and loses consciousness upon impact. Ignoring her survival instincts, Jennie leaves the plane in search of help. She ends up at a commune that appears wholesome and serene, but Jennie soon suspects something sinister.Eric, a member of the...
10) Alive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible decision:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
12) The sleepwalker
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Series
CHERUB novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism, but they're getting nowhere. A distressed 12-year-old calls a police hotline and blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough, but there's no hard evidence--Résumé de l'éditeur.
13) Lost horizon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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Description
"While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery...a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled." --Cover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him -- and ultimately saved his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
16) Air disasters
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Language
English
17) Airplane crashes
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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