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1) The River
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
2) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Bell has spent his whole life -- all eleven years of it -- on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell -- a regular...
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Self-reliant Max Starling, a twelve-year-old detective and problem solver, struggles to keep his identity a secret as he investigates a case of arson, while cryptic messages from his still missing parents indicate that they need rescuing.
8) Save Rafe!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
♭2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her youngSer brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Solutioneer Max Starling travels to a fictional South American country to rescue his parents who have become embroiled in a political power grab"--
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling circumstances seem out of her control... or are they?"--
13) Wild things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
16) Wild Timothy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Timothy, more interested in reading than in physical activity, reluctantly accompanies his enthusiastic father on a camping trip and, when he accidently becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving on his own.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the...
18) Crunch
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
♭2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
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.
20) Lyddie
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
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