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2) The Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery,...
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I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new.
Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
5) Mockingjay
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Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. A revolution is unfolding. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
The Hunger Games volume no. 1
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge
The Hunger Games volume no. 1
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to send one boy and one girl to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is selected for the games. But she has been close to death before, and survival,...
7) Far North
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
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Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
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"On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their current gifts, Akos and Cyra do not--their gifts make them vulnerable to others control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world?"--Amazon.com.
9) Poppy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
10) Homecoming
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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In Voigt's first novel--and the introduction to her Tillerman saga--the four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New England to their paternal grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home. An ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults.
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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"Soren's sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger."--P. [4] of cover.
12) The surge
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Storm runners volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
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Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
14) Catching fire
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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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.
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I survived volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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©2014.
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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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.
19) Call it courage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Although he is afraid of the sea, the son of a Polynesian chief, whose people worship courage, sets out alone in his canoe to conquer his fear.
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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When Soren the Barn Owl is taken from his tranquil kingdom of Tyto, he and his friend Gylfie escape and, along the way, meet two other Barn Owls, Twilight and Digger. The four owls band together to seek the truth and protect the owl world from unimaginable danger.
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