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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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English
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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...
3) 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,...
4) Safekeeping
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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.
6) 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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
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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...
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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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
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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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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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.
Author
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.
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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.
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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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