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2) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
3) Nim's island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with, even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
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English
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In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical.
Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically...
Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Living on an idyllic but sinister island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children share bountiful food and security under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a closed zoo after witnessing a life-shattering event, a woman and her 4-year-old son navigate the zoo's hidden pathways and under-renovation exhibits to stay ahead of a dangerous adversary who tests their survival and the limits of the mother-child bond.
8) Dead voices
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Finds best friends Ollie, Coco and Brian spending winter break at a down-on-its-heels ski resort before the ghost of the resort's late co-owner reaches out for help solving his murder.
9) Dog driven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
10) Raging sea
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Struggling to survive in a decimated world where nearly everyone she loves is missing or presumed dead, Lyric Walker works to unite the Alpha before a second wave of invasions wipe out the rest of humanity.
11) The empty city
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of the Big Growl that destroyed his city, a Lone Dog named Lucky must find a way to work with other dogs in order to survive in this frightening new world.
13) Splintered
Author
Series
Spliced volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran continues her fight for survival and equality in a near-future world where teenagers have animal DNA spliced into their own.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When his brother represents his village in a festival contest, resulting in the unthinkable, 11-year-old Kofi finds himself fighting for his life, which sends him on a dangerous journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
17) Rebellion
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When a fanatical cult determined to cleanse the war-ravaged Earth threatens the one hundred, Clarke sets off to make peace with these strangers while Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message.
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Originally not wanting to come to Chicago, young Oscar Starling finds himself not only in the middle of the city, but trying to survive when the town is ablaze.
20) Beauty Queens
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Language
English
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Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
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