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Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
23) Amazing grace
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of three women are changed forever when an earthquake devastates San Francisco, exposing the financial fraud of socialist Sarah Sloane's husband, allowing teen pop sensation Melanie Free the chance to practice her true calling as a nurse, and testing Sister Maggie Kent's devotion to her calling.
24) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perce village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perce Indians.
26) The lost tribe
Author
Series
(Carl Blaine),Book of Mormon sleuth volume 2
Publisher
Bookcraft
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Following a plane crash en route to Alaska, a Mormon family is captured by a primitive tribe somewhere in Russia and must rely on their knowledge of scripture to plan their escape.
27) Last child
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Caught between the worlds of the her Scottish father and her Mandan mother in what is now North Dakota, Rosalie fights to survive both the 1837 smallpox epidemic and the actions of a vengeful trader.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After meeting Emma, who is part of a band of Mormons making their way to Salt Lake City in 1856, Doe Sia, a young Bannock girl, proves her friendship when the two are caught in a brutal snow storm.
29) Mayday
Author
Language
English
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Description
An airliner on a routine flight from San Francisco to Tokyo is struck by a U.S. Navy missile. Because of the sudden change in cabin pressure, all but five people on board are either dead, comatose, or raving mad. As Flight 52 becomes the ultimate test of survival, onboard horrors begin to mount up. In addition, the airline, the insurance company, and the Navy are desperate to cover up the mishap--no matter what the cost.
30) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Chase, heading south of the border with Nicole Rossi, faces a threat to his survival while searching for the Rossi Brothers' Circus after an earthquake in Mexico.
31) Stones in water
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This question haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Collela, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident that claims the lives of nine other people off the coast of Maine. Julia, a 40-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, Julia begins to explore the...
33) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
34) A dog's way home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
After her small plane crashes, nearly killing her and her pilot and leaving them stranded in the wilderness and dependent on each other for survival, a wealthy young widow begins to suspect that the crash was no accident.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1990], c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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