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21) Then
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
24) Homecoming
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In Voigt's first novel--and the introduction to her Tillerman saga--the four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New England to their paternal grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home. An ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults.
25) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Maya and her friends feel like the St. Clouds and the Cabal have hunted them to the ends of the Earth, and there is nowhere left to hide. With no help from the outside--the rest of the world thinks they are already dead--Maya follows the clues of a name and a phone-number, her only source of hope to find answers about their supernatural abilities and why they cannot seem to control them.
26) Station Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
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Series
Gone novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.
29) The river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.
31) Ice Cold
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Series
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Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a barren land, a teen named Lucy and her adoptive mother Lynn are forced to leave the community they know and search the vast countryside for a new home.
Author
Series
I survived volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.
34) Wildfire run
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
38) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a barren world where water is a precious resource, Lynn protects a pond on her property from other people and wildlife alike, preserving every drop for her own use. When large groups of people begin approaching and leave threatening messages, however, Lynn realizes they will stop at nothing to obtain her water, and she will have to fight with all she has to protect it.
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