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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. 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,...
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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.
Language
English
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Description
Sam leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family trip has been canceled, preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for. The film chronicles his struggle for independence, and his battle with the forces of natures. *"A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man in his own way." - Howard Thompson, **The New York Times***
8) Unbreakable
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of terrible train wreck, David Dunn, a security guard, is contacted by Elijah Price, a mysterious stranger who tries to convince David that he has a special gift.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 17
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
11) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
12) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
13) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
14) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.
15) The road
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
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Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.
20) After Earth
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain...
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