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21) Unwind
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
22) Brian's return
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
23) 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 Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
24) The vaster wilds
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
26) Darkwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume Prequel
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Smoke Jensen, Matt Jensen, Falcon And Duff MacCallister-Together For The First Time
They just wanted to get home for Christmas. . .but fate had other plans.
It's December 1890. A Texas rancher named Big Jim Conyers has a deal with Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacAllister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Forth Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go...
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014, c2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, Mouseford Academy is offering a course in outdoor survival skills, and it's being taught by the athletic adventurous Bruce Hyena! All five Thea Sisters sign up, along with the Ruby Crew. But when a terrible storm hits during the two-day outdoor challenge, there are mouselets in danger! Who will come to the rescue? -- Back cover.
29) Wild Man Island
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
30) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
31) Lost in the wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Adventure Publications
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
You are the main character in this choose-your-path book, and you're on a camping trip with your family. But when your sister and you get caught in a thunderstorm, the relaxing vacation becomes an endless struggle. Your only goal: survive! Do you have what it takes to save your sister and yourself from unknown dangers? Or will your choices lead to a tragic ending? Put yourself in this adventure, and find out!
32) Fever, 1793
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A high stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident, The River at Night is a nonstop and unforgettable thriller by a stunning new voice in fiction. Winifred Allen needs a vacation. Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and lonely after the end of a fifteen-year marriage, Wini...
35) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
Author
Publisher
Greyson Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jack has a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show Planet Survival. Jack goes undercover as a security agent where the show is filming on nearby Mount Minuit. Soon trapped on the treacherous peak by a blizzard, a mysterious killer continues to stalk the cast and crew"--Back cover.
37) Burying the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
Author
Series
Flabbergasted trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Number-cruncher-turned-missionary Jay Jarvis and his poetry-enthused girlfriend, Allie Kyle, are in for the trip of a lifetime. Joined by their friends, sports enthusiast Steve Cole and lime-lover Darcy Yeager, they head into the Outback of Australia, hoping for adventure. As the girls catch up on their girl talk and plan their next sight-seeing activity, Jay and Steve do a little planning of their own. With marriage proposals on their minds and little...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dani McFeeney's trip to the tropics to help in an environmental cleanup turns into a disaster when her teacher strands her, her middle school classmates, and her little brother on an uninhabited island and then gets sick.
40) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
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