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1) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
2) The wall
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Language
English
Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
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Language
English
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Description
"You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare for War! Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. But Farnham's small group had barely settled...
4) Three A.M
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Language
English
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Surviving an apocalyptic event after embarking on what he believed would be a promising military career, Thomas Vale struggles to protect survivors, follow orders, and endure life in a chaotic world of limited supplies and constant danger.
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Language
English
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Description
Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure, so she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan. But when their plane crashes, they find themselves stranded on an uninhabited island. At first, their only thought is survival--but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, greater obstacles occur: violent tropical storms, dangers lurking in the sea, and...
6) Nightfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"On Marin's island, the sunrise only comes every twenty-eight years. But it's not the dawn she has to worry about. When sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders of Bliss must quickly prepare to sail south, where they will wait out the long, fourteen years of unforgiving Night. Marin and her twin brother, Kana, ready their house for departure: locks must be taken off doors, furniture arranged, tables set. The rituals are...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 850L
Language
English
Description
"An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by his son Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world...
Author
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...
11) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"When young Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea in search of adventure, he gets more than he bargained for. Shipwrecked on a remote island with no hope of rescue, he will need all his skill and ingenuity just to stay alive. The most famous adventure story in the English language is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format."--P. [4] of cover.
12) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Johann Wyss's novel about an imaginative family that survives and prospers after being shipwrecked on a deserted island where they live over ten years before the chance of rescue arrives.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In [this] post-pandemic world, humanity is quickly rebuilding its cities and returning to the comforts and conveniences of large urban environments--but reviving destructive, age-old havits as well ... Elijah is separated from Colonel Kahn's freedom fighters and swept into another complicated whirlwind of trouble."--Cover p. [1].
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"New doors swing open for young Elijah, as his sniper skills increase and he continues his combat training ... Elijah seeks comfort in the arms of another survivor ... [and] tries to endure and adapt to life in a violent, urban hellhole"--Cover p. [1].
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Propater's military forces seek to possess our planet and maintain possession of one body in suspended animation--an empty shell whose consciousness has been downloaded into Sophia's sophisticated cyborg system. Sophia cast her body aside years ago. Will she risk what's left of her brain and essential self for a chance to reunite a stranger's body with his mind?"--Cover p. [1].
20) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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