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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
4) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters--but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no attention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon realizes...
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Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2007, 2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books ; MTV Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
11) The storm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby's fight for survival continues in a post-apocalyptic world where the rain is deadly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
15) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
16) Trapped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
18) Outrun the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
19) The Testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
20) The fall of five
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde go into hiding. They must learn to master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. When they receive a sign from Number Five -- a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol -- they know they are close to being reunited. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too late....
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