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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe's survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland's native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time.
2) Survival
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Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Six kids. One shipwreck. One deserted island. After their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa must find a way to survive. They have no food and very few supplies. They think they're all alone, but they're not. And that's even worse.
3) Lost horizon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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"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
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One perfect shot will change the course of history. Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye. David Slaton is a Kidon - a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in...
5) The Marvels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
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Ashes series (William W. Johnstone) volume 4
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English
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"A bloodthirsty religious cult called the Ninth Order is spreading a doctrine of hate across the land. They're soulless and sadistic, and they're sending their armies of fanatics against Raines and his Rebels, plotting treachery within his own ranks. If their terrible plan succeeds, Ben Raines will die, and so will all his bright dreams for the future of America"--P. [4] of cover.
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Israeli delegates to a planned U.N. conference that promises to finally bring peace to the Middle East, are forced instead to fight for their lives when the plane in which they are traveling is forced to crash land at an ancient desert site where they are confronted by crack Palestinian commandos.
8) Mayday
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English
Description
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible: land the plane.
9) Life of Pi
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat,...
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I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to. Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they...
11) Brian's return
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
12) Safekeeping
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When Radley returns to the United States after volunteering abroad, she comes back to a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.
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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...
14) Robinson Crusoe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
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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...
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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...
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A transport plane carrying an important Taliban detainee for interrogation is shot down in a blizzard over the Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible, and for two people, navigator Michael Parson and a woman Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold. A battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, against not only the hazards of nature, but the treacheries of man: the Taliban stalking them; the villagers, whose loyalty...
18) Black ice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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English
Description
Defoe's famous work is actually based on the true story of the shipwrecked traveler, Alexander Selkirk, and it has thrilled generations of readers, who have counted among them kings and philosophers, even the founding fathers of the United States.
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