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1) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
When their whale-watching trip goes horribly wrong, Skylar, Gabby, and Miles find themselves on an inflatable raft in the middle of the ocean. With no food, a small amount of water, and only a small first-aid kit to help them, they must spend three treacherous days on the waves, hoping desperately for help to arrive. Sharks circle, their water supply dwindles, and Gabby begins to hallucinate. Will they survive, or are they lost at sea forever?
4) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Four kids stranded on a desert island venture into the jungles in order to stay alive.
Author
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wild August torrent sweeps Abel Mouse away from home, family, and familiar world to an uninhabited island where, between efforts to return home, he makes new discoveries about himself and the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
9) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline"--Title verso page.
10) Horizon
Author
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
While the kids plan their next move, an unexpected threat emerges and June gets separated from her friends, dragged miles away from Wakefield to a town overgrown with monstrous vines and never-before-seen creatures. Drawing on her post-apocalyptic survival and action skills--and with the help of some odd new companions--June attempts to make her way back home. But not before she uncovers critical information about the mysterious "Tower." Information...
13) Undead ahead
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to survive after zombies take over, Phoenix, Arizona, Zack, Rice, and Madison discover a zombie antidote and embark on a mission to save the nation from the undead scourge.
14) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them"--Title verso page.
15) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. From the crops that don't grow to the terrifying creatures that roam the countryside, Yoly's life in the Valley is brutal and harsh. She dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. But first, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed. Between her razor-sharp...
17) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow...
18) Dog driven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ever since her vision started deteriorating, fourteen-year-old McKenna Barney has felt out of place in the world. Out of place at home and at school and even on the trail with her dogs. Now, to help her younger sister with her own ongoing battle with an eye disease, McKenna finds herself at the head of a team of eight sled dogs in a race she's not sure she can even see, let alone win. For three days of shifting lake ice, sudden owl attacks, bitterly...
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six months after the Zombie Chasers discovered the antidote to end the Zombie apocalypse, Zack Clark and friends discover, during a class trip to New York City, that the living dead may not be gone for good.
20) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old boy returns to the wild, where he befriends a wounded dog and hunts a rogue bear.
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