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1) 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
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another...
Author
Series
I survived volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - 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.
6) Spy camp
Author
Series
Spy school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As almost thirteen-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
Author
Series
Deptford mice trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to an evil world populated by rats who peel mice before eating them and worship the Dark Lord.
9) 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....
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the monster apocalypse, Jack Sullivan has been having an awesome time living in a tree house with his three best friends. But when zombies start mysteriously disappearing, Jack and his friends suspect that an extremely evil force is at work"--
11) Call it courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
Author
Series
Shamer Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her mother, a Shamer, is summoned to Dunark for a mission, ten-year-old Dina is forced to use her own special powers as she is caught up in an adventure of political intrigue and survival.
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In September 2013, 72-year-old Gene Penaflor was hunting for deer in California's Mendocino National Forest when he fell onto rocky terrain and was knocked unconscious. When he awoke, the hunter was disoriented and lost. Days went by but rescuers did not come. To survive, Gene ate squirrels, frogs, and lizards. He kept himself warm in the subfreezing temperatures by building small fires and covering himself with leaves and grass. Would help arrive...
15) Empty smiles
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
16) The fever code
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before the trials, WICKED found Thomas, the perfect boy, to help them build the Maze and find the cure for the Flare, a disease that plagues the world. But the truth of what is really going on is a secret and Thomas must uncover it before time runs out"--
17) Small spaces
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 6th and 7th Grade_2023
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
"After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter...
18) Raptor
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
Author
Series
I survived volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Crane is alone on his favorite beach in Hawaii when the world is torn apart and World War II officially hits the United States. Does he have what it takes to find his way home in the midst of the bombs, the smoke, and the destruction of the day that will live in infamy?
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