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1) 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,...
2) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
To get the answers he seeks about his powerful Cosmic Hand, which might be able to stop the inevitable from happening, Jack must travel farther than he’s ever been--he must go to the monster dimension.
4) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
5) Raptor
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
6) Fear
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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"The New York Times bestseller A LONG WALK TO WATER begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan: a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, fetches water from a pond that is tow hours' walk from her home. She makes two trips to the pond every day. the boy, Salva, becomes one of the "last boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe...
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Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
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Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus...
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I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
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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Series
Zombie chasers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Zack Clarke's sleepover turns into chaos when Zombies invade.
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Series
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.
13) The storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby's fight for survival continues in a post-apocalyptic world where the rain is deadly.
Author
Series
I survived volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
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.
15) Monster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
It's been four years since the invisible dome that was created by an alien virus appeared over Perdido Beach. Inside the dome, animals began to mutate and the teens remaining the dome developed dangerous powers. Now the dome has disappeared, but meteors are hitting the Earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans all over the world will mutate into monsters and as some teens begin to turn into heroes, they find that others are out of control and that...
17) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
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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Description
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,...
18) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
19) Homecoming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
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.
20) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Maya and her friends feel like the St. Clouds and the Cabal have hunted them to the ends of the Earth, and there is nowhere left to hide. With no help from the outside--the rest of the world thinks they are already dead--Maya follows the clues of a name and a phone-number, her only source of hope to find answers about their supernatural abilities and why they cannot seem to control them.