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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Language
English
Description
Overview: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including...
2) Neversink
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have...
3) Horizon
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
An inquisitive polar bear named Duane befriends an array of animals as he discovers where he belongs in this charming classic-in-the making.
In the Very, Very Far North, past the Cold, Cold Ocean and just below the hill that looks like a baby whale, you'll find Duane and his friends.
Duane is a sweet and curious young bear who makes friends with everyone he meets-whether they're bossy, like Major Puff the puffin, or a bit vain, like Handsome the...
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
The harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift.
6) Ice whale
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
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Series
Animal Rescue Agency volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When an animal is in trouble, there's only one place to turn: the Animal Rescue Agency! Dashing Esquire Fox used to organize the world's most elaborate chicken raids until the day she encountered Mr. Pepper. Meeting the blustery old rooster changed her heart, convincing her to turn from a life of crime and instead form the Animal Rescue Agency, which masterminds rescue operations across the globe. Esquire and her unlikely chicken business manager...
8) Finding bear
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island, but over a year later, she can't stop thinking about Bear. So when April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she's convinced it's her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the nothernmost reaches of the Arctic. Along the way, April discovers much more than she bargained for--a tiny polar bear cub desperately in need of her help. In freezing temperatures,...
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