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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this novel, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civiization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued, and these schoolboys marooned on this tropical...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
10) Watership Down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the young residents of Perdido Beach begin to better comprehend the truths of who they are and their relationships to one another, the Darkness finds a new way to be born, bringing their understanding of fear to a new level.
14) Hunger
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
15) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
16) The last star
Author
Series
5th wave volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--
17) Light
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
19) The infinite sea
Author
Series
5th wave volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
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