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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On his way to hunt jaguars in the Brazilian jungle, a professional hunter is marooned on a remote island inhabited by a fellow hunter who pursues unusual game. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...as one by one...they begin to die. Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?" --Cover, p. 4.
4) Coral Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survivalRalph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful...
5) The bomb
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
6) Radioactive
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
"Trouble hits paradise when accidents start befalling tourists on a Pacific island. Local legend has it that the locale is cursed after nuclear testing in the 1950s. It sounds like fiction, but is it?"--
Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
On a remote island estate, Annaleigh Thaumas, the sixth-born of twelve sisters, enlists the aid of an alluring stranger to unravel the family curse before it claims her life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
10) The wild things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Facing trouble at home with his father gone and his mother and sister uninterested in him, Max runs away from home during an argument only to end up in the island of the Wild Things. Soon Max becomes the king of the island. But things get complicated when Max realizes his subjects want as much from him as he wants from them.
11) Robinson Crusoe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
12) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
16) The Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
18) Burn for burn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Three teenage girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
20) Jane, unlimited
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia--an adjunct professor and deep sea photographer. Jane counted on Magnolia to make the world feel expansive and to turn life into an adventure. But Aunt Magnolia was lost a few months ago in Antarctica on one of her expeditions. Now, with no direction, a year out of high school, and obsessed with making umbrellas that look like her own dreams (but mostly just mourning her aunt), she is easily...
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