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2) Survival
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Six kids are stuck on a desert island. They have no food, no shelter. Nobody knows they are lost. They must take from the island in order to survive. But what if they're not alone?
4) Alone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
5) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Having been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences.
10) Safekeeping
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When Radley returns to the U.S. after having volunteered abroad, she discovers a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.
11) Trapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
The day the blizzard stated, no one knew that it was goin to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. 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
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
17) Wild river
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.
18) Esto es coraje
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 105
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ever since his mother drowned, Mafatu, a 15-year-old Polynesian boy, has had a profound fear of the sea. One day he finds an inner strength to overcome his terror.
Author
Series
Santa Paws series volume 4
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Santa Paws tries to help people when a big ice storm hits town during Christmastime.