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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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...
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) The Marvels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Description
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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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...
5) Lost horizon
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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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Series
Flight 29 down volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A charter plane crash on a deserted island forces a disparate group of teenagers to bury their petty jealousies and cooperate in an attempt to survive.
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Series
Flight 29 down volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conflict among the seven passengers of Flight 29 stranded on a deserted tropical island complicates their attempts to survive on an island as they attempt to wait to be rescued. Based on the hit television series.
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Series
Flight 29 down volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The attempt to survive an oncoming tropical storm is complicated by the stealing of videotapes by one of the stranded passengers of Flight 29.
Author
Series
Flight 29 down volume 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The seven survivors of Flight 29 Down discover that they are not alone on their deserted island.
Author
Series
Flight 29 down volume 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A novelization of the television series "Flight 29 Down" in which a storm leaves the crash survivors without food, shelter, or supplies, requiring them to start over with tensions already high and mutiny on the horizon.
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