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21) The lifeboat
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Language
English
Description
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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English
Description
"'Snapshot' is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in 'Aloft.' On a seemingly ordinary...
23) I know my name
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Appearing on the shores of a small Greek island with no memory of who she is or how she became shipwrecked, a woman discovers from her caregivers that she is the object of a dark mystery, while in a London suburb, a frantic husband searches for his missing wife.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
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...
26) Robinson Crusoe
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Series
Language
English
Description
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked "and leads a solitary existance on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco river for 24 years. He meets the difficulties of a primitive existence with wonderful ingenuity... At length he meets a human being, a young native... and makes him his companion and servant." Benét. The Reader's Encyclopedia
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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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a deserted island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.
30) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"When young Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea in search of adventure, he gets more than he bargained for. Shipwrecked on a remote island with no hope of rescue, he will need all his skill and ingenuity just to stay alive. The most famous adventure story in the English language is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format."--P. [4] of cover.
32) The castaway
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation, Hubie the mouse falls out of a dirigible and is stranded on a tropical island, where a very inventive fellow castaway, Leo, helps him overcome his fears.
33) Son de mar
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A castaway returns after ten years to find or be found by a former love.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Charles and Oliver help Admiral Winchester with his plan to recapture the pirate sea dogs who have escaped from prison. In book two Charles and Oliver leave the island on which they have been marooned by means of a hot-air balloon.
35) Castaway cats
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifteen felines find themselves marooned on an island and are not sure what to do.
39) Castaway
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Language
English
Description
A dare turns deadly as six kids are cut off by the seas. One of them is hurt, it's the middle of the night, and they have only themselves to blame.
40) No man's land
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Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After ramming a COBRA ship, Shipwreck finds himself marooned on an island swarming with Battle Android Troopers.
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