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1) Lost boy
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Matt moves to Hay-on-Wye in Wales, a boy his age who bears the same initials and was killed in a car accident many years earlier, appears to Matt.
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
Author
Series
Island volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
129 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
They did not want to be on the boat with strangers, but you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with no way out.
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink. Includes facts about the Titanic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Award, 1961. Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blue dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roost in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-- until one day they decided to leave and sailed to the east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back....
8) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
There were warning signs that the molasses tank would break. The steel sides moaned and groaned. Molasses oozed from its seams. But the people of Boston's North End -- mostly poor immigrants -- were powerless to complain to the big molasses company. On a bright January day in 1919, the tank finally broke and almost three million gallons of molasses rushed the neighborhood.