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82) Front country
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Eighth grader Ginny Shepard attempts to ground herself after realizing that the world is apathetic to the very real, very urgent realities of climate change, and reckoning with her own feelings of guilt and impotence.
84) Backwater
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
86) Out of range
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.
Author
Series
Survivors volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Lucky's efforts to settle in the forest with his fellow Unleashed Dogs is challenged by a fierce wild pack that wants to claim the land, prompting a daring plan by Bella that tests Lucky's cunning and intelligence.
88) Backcountry
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Emily has always excelled at sports, and her athletic abilities have given her confidence on and off the courts. So when she starts to drag during her middle-school volleyball season, she assumes it must be the flu. But after a particularly intense game, she finds herself riding in the back of an ambulance, a paramedic telling her that her life will never be the same. Adjusting to life with type 1 diabetes isn't easy. Emily is desperate to prove...
89) Hide and seek
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When a monster storm descends on Mount Denali in Alaska, several teams of climbers are trapped in the blizzard, and Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his squad of Pararescuemen are called on to locate and rescue them--if they can survive some of the harshest conditions on the planet.
91) When eagles fall
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Still coping with her brother's death and her parents' subsequent divorce, thirteen-year-old Alex finds herself stranded on a small, deserted island in Minnesota with an injured eaglet.
92) Adrenalin ride
Author
Series
Take it to the extreme volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Peter and Jake are excited to be in on the development of a bike trail west of the Canadian Rockies but things are not what they seem and the boys are plunged into the decent of their lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Samirah, a spirited Arabian filly, has been carefully raised and trained by her girl, Jasper, on a struggling dude ranch near the Green River in Utah. Sami and Jasper, both searching for their place in the world, bond on their joyous rides together and become so close that each will do anything for the other. As the ranch's fortunes decline, Jasper fears that her beloved horse will be sold. Desperate, she concocts a plan that unwittingly brings the...
94) Black angels
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
95) 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.
96) Ice dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
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.
98) Brian's Return
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
99) The wild robot
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad....
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