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61) Liferaft
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the...
62) Freefall
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English
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When an airplane crashes at the top of an mountain, Hope Banning reluctantly teams up with Sam Rutherford on the search-and-rescue mission.
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Ashes series (William W. Johnstone) volume 4
Language
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.
64) Hatchet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present-and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents' divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair-it will take all his know-how...
65) Island
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English
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In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.
Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
66) Escape
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Six children try to escape from a desert island in the Pacific Ocean in order to save their lives.
67) No safe haven
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English
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"A year after the devastating death of their husband and father in a terrible car accident, Jenna and Andie Tikaani-Gray are hoping for a fresh start. Andie, who has always struggled with a rare medical disorder, has finally received good news from out-of-town specialists...But as they are flying home to Alaska, ready to begin again, the unthinkable happens. The pilot sabotages their small plane. They crash in the worst place possible: Sultana, one...
68) Titanic
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English
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Two survivors recount how the world's biggest, safest ship sank on its first voyage.
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Lexile measure
1290L
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English
Description
Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching and brutally killing their fellow seamen....
Series
Lost volume 4th season
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 will discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them.
71) Alive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1160L
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English
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible decision:...
73) Dies the fire
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English
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When a strange electrical storm over the island of Nantucket suddenly causes all electronic devices to cease functioning, the world is faced with an unimaginable transformation, one that is complicated by some individuals' ruthless quest for ultimate domination.
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English
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From Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson to Alive! and Adrift, tales of survival have always captivated readers. This powerful collection chronicles the remarkable true stories of real-life maroons, castaways, and other survivors as they struggle to endure against insurmountable odds. From the 1500s to the present, in the most isolated and unforgiving terrains imaginable, they faced shipwrecks and plane crashes, crossed vast deserts and...
76) Call it courage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Mafatu's name means Stout Heart, but people call him a coward. He fears the sea because it killed his mother when he was a baby. And so, though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru--an island whose seafaring people worship courage--he is afraid.".
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
79) Storm thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Storm Thief is a stunningly envisioned, darkly thrilling novel from the remarkable imagination of Chris Wooding, drawing readers into a world where everything is deadly...and anything is possible.
80) The lifeboat
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In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's. The survivors quickly realise the boat is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements,...
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