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102) Save Rafe!
Author
Series
Middle school volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes the hardships of her life growing up in the North Korea of the 1980s and 1990s, when the country was ravaged by famine, and her harrowing escape to China with her infant son, when the government ordered her to kill him.
104) The chosen
Author
Series
Contender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers is about to discover why.
Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon realizes this new world is populated with lost remnants from the past: prehistoric creatures, ancient relics, and--stranger still--people. Overwhelmed by his new surroundings, Cade has little time to adjust, for...
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fatima is having fun camping with her friends, but she is afraid the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.
106) The river challenge
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 5
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack is up for anything... as long as he doesn't have to get wet. No one knows about his fear of water, and he's determined to keep it a secret. But then he slips into a shallow stream and is pulled out of a deep, fast-flowing river gorge by Bear Grylls. They work together to build a bamboo raft, navigate the whitewater rapids and steer clear of hidden dangers... Can Jack rise to the challenge of being thrown in at the deep end? Will he sink or swim?...
107) The river challenge
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack is up for anything... as long as he doesn't have to get wet. No one knows about his fear of water, and he's determined to keep it a secret. But then he slips into a shallow stream and is pulled out of a deep, fast-flowing river gorge by Bear Grylls. They work together to build a bamboo raft, navigate the whitewater rapids and steer clear of hidden dangers... Can Jack rise to the challenge of being thrown in at the deep end? Will he sink or swim?...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
iii, 151 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of the Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunting opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It is the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for extremely high winds and rain, absolutely perfect...
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After six years of no word from her best friend, Logan, he shows up on the doorstep of the remote Alaskan cabin Maddie and her father live in with an assailant in pursuit.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
112) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
The Hunger Games volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Far off the coast of California loos 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 roots in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sail east.
A young girl was left behind.
Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful...
115) 127 hours
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The powerfully uplifting true story of one man's struggle to survive against mountainous odds. Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn...
116) The wild robot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
117) Into the shadows
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the Wild Pack discovers that a traitor is in their midst, the ensuing tensions and suspicions threaten the precarious peace among the survivors, challenging protective Storm to do whatever she can to keep everyone safe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
120) Crazy house
Author
Series
Publisher
LIttle, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.