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1) Homecoming
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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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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.
3) Northwind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.
5) The river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
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Maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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"Max the puppy has fallen in love. From the moment Emi walks into the shelter with her long black hair and bright smile, he knows she's meant to be his forever person. Emi's family has just moved to Maine from Japan, and he can tell that she is in desperate need of a friend like Max. After Emi adopts him, Max goes to live with her high up on a mountain homestead where he explores his new world and spends his days annoying the other family pet, a Maine...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
11) Prueba de fuego
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Maze runner volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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"Thomas y sus amigos descansan después de escapar del Laberinto. Por fin sienten que están a salvo. Pero unos gritos desquiciados los despiertan y los enfrentan a una realidad aún más aterradora que la anterior."--Back cover.
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...
12) The Silver Gate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Elric and his mother secretly care for his mentally disabled sister Wynn, whom the villagers consider a changeling, until their father threatens to sell her, so they flee into the forest, even though Elric does not share her belief in magic.
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My weirder-est school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"At-ten-tion! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A. J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and win cool badges. But scout leader Miss Blake would rather prepare them for bear attacks and falling boulders. When they head outdoors, will they be prepared for a real emergency?" -- Back cover.
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"Can you survive being trapped in a rain forest? Imagine a run-in with a poison dart frog in the Amazon Rain Forest, a chimpanzee in the African Congo, or a clouded leopard in the jungles of Southeast Asia. How far would you be willing to go to save your own life? Would it work? Flip through these pages to find out! What would you do in a life-or-death situation out in the wilderness? Now's your chance to find out! Readers will be transported to different...
17) Crash
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Stay alive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
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Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Maddie, the daughter of a Secret Service agent, is best friends with Logan, the son of the president, and she thought they would be best friends forever. However, when her dad is compelled to move her out into the Alaskan wilderness, twenty miles from the nearest phone, six years go by, and Maddie hears no word from Logan at all. Then, one day, Logan shows up--and Maddie decides she wants to kill him with her bedazzled ax. Then, out of nowhere, an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
20) Alabama moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. I could trap my own food and make my own clothes. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. He wasn't worried about...
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