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Tarzan volume 8
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English
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In this 1921 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series, the ape man discovers a lost world of dinosaurs where his beloved Jane is being held captive.
When World War I broke out across the African colonies, an attack on Tarzan's estate led him to believe his wife Jane had been killed by Imperial German soldiers. But after a months-long rampage of vengeance, he learns she is in fact still alive-he only need find her. Before long, his search will...
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Lexile measure
1180L
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English
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The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life. As the story unfolds, the boy becomes lost in the forest, encounters the fierce one-eared...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
Zane Dupree is a charismatic 12-year-old boy of mixed race visiting a relative in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hits. Unexpectedly separated from all family, Zane and his dog experience the terror of Katrina's wind, rain, and horrific flooding. Facing death,...
5) Ascent
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Peak volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 680L
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English
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"Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself." -- Publisher.
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Tarzan volume 5
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English
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth adventure in the saga of the jungle lord and features both one of the series most celebrated locations, the lost city of Opar, as well as one of its most celebrated characters, the ruthless, obsessed and fatally beautiful La of Opar.
Seeking to make off with some of the lost city of Opar's treasures, Tarzan survives an earthquake only to take a blow to the head and be stricken with partial amnesia, leaving...
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Tarzan volume 6
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English
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This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...
8) Breakdown
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Stay alive volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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When the bus carrying a group of kids home from summer camp breaks down on an abandoned road during a heatwave, the group must survive the elements and find help, over sixty miles away.
10) The edge
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Peak volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
11) Solitary
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Escape from Furnace volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
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English
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Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
12) Crash
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Stay alive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
13) I'll be there
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
14) Wings
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How do you prepare for disaster?
When John Dexter's solo canoe crashes during the first day of a canoe trip in the wilderness of northern Maine, he is lost, injured and alone in some of the deepest, uninhabited wilderness in the state. Will this teenage boy survive long enough to find his way out? Will anyone come looking for him?
After nearly a year of preparation and finally convincing his mother to let them go, John Dexter embarks on canoe trip...
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As he returns home from gathering supplies with his father, fourteen-year-old Isaiah is looking forward to showing off his new symbol of manhood to his mother and sisters. What he doesn't expect to find is his home burned and pillaged, his barn up in flames, and his family dead at his feet.
Equipped with nothing but a description of the man who led the raid and the few items the raiders left behind, Isaiah and his father take to the road with one...
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"In March 1945 Hitler ordered his last propaganda command: send all 15- and 16-year old boys to defend the fatherland. 47 DAYS tells the true story of G©ơnter and Helmut, best friends, who dared to defy and disobey. Without knowing how long the war might continue, they spent 47 harrowing days as fugitives on the run. Being caught meant certain execution. 47 DAYS is an excerpt from the novel, SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND--A True Coming-of-age Love Story...
17) The Big Dark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In this page-turning adventure by Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick, a solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother.
What would you do if every spark of electricity suddenly vanished, as if somebody had flipped a switch on the entire planet? Cars won't start, the heat shuts off, there's no water in your faucet, and your radio, TV, and flashlight go dark. Everyone in Charlie's small town...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them. Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary.
19) Big game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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13-year-old Oskari is sent into the cold wilderness on an ancient test of manhood. He must survive armed only with a bow and arrow. But instead, he stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airliner: Air Force One. Terrorists have shot down the President of the United States. The boy hunter and the world's most powerful man are suddenly the hunted, in a race against a deadly enemy.
20) Clawed
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All I wanted was a family.
So, I surrounded myself with the only friends I've ever had and joined JROTC so I could feel the love of a family unit.
When we went to a two-week summer camp in the mountains of Kentucky, Carter Rollins, the leader, tempted me with always being, desired. If I joined his Army Pride, I'd have the connections I'd dreamed of.
Yet something was mystifying about the boy with eyes like an autumn sky. Maybe it was his rugged exterior...
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