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1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Appears on list
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: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 1
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The warrior cat Clans have enjoyed many moons of peace and prosperity--but a dark season approaches, and those days will soon be over. Guided by a mysterious vision, the young apprentice Alderpaw of ThunderClan must go on a dangerous journey...a journey that may be the Clans' only hope." --
6) Commune
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, two hippies hiking near Mt. Shasta in Northern California stumbled across an unlikely property for sale: an abandoned goldmine and surrounding land, 300 acres for {dollar}22,000. Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought the property and named it Black Bear Ranch. It quickly became the prototypical 1960s commune, with the motto "Free Land for Free People." Utopian communities have always been...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They institute martial rule. And at Vemork, an industrial fortress high above a dizzying gorge, they gain access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end World War II: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb. When the Allies discover the plans for the bomb, they agree Vemork must be...
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