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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone by her Indian tribe when they decide to sail to the east, Karana, a young Indian girl, lives on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, where she spends eighteen years, surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance. Year after year she waits for the ship to return but it never does. Finally she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on her own or remain alone fo rthe rest of her life....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
4) The tempest
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
9) Survival
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Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four children, having survived a shipwreck and a week with no food, arrive on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, missing two of their friends, and find themselves in danger of being found by some very dangerous people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"Take a journey to the Galápagos Islands to see Galápagos giant tortoises up close and discover how cutting-edge technology is helping scientists study and protect these gentle giants. Page Plus links in the book lead to videos of scientists in the field"--Provided by the publisher.
11) Escape
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Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six kids shipwrecked on an obscure Pacific island urgently need a plan to get home when they realize they are sharing their living space with a deadly group of smugglers--and the situation grows even more dire when the smugglers stumble across an atomic bomb left there in 1945.
12) Survivors
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Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
13) Orphan Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them -- and taking the eldest one away, never to be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A narrative, nonfiction account of the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, told from the perspectives of an American civilian and soldiers from both sides of the conflict. Includes more than eighty photographs.
15) Shipwreck
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent...
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Series
Emily Windsnap volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A class trip to a beautiful island is overshadowed by a local myth about a mysterious ship that may have ties to the lost city of Atlantis.
17) Syren
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Series
Septimus Heap volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Septimus Heap is stranded on a remote island with a badly injured dragon. But as he attempts to heal Spit Fyre for the journey home, Septimus hears his name called over and over again. A sinister spirit which inhabits the island has cast a terrible spell, but before Septimus can act, disaster strikes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Frederick Ackerman refuses to spend another summer with his extended family of divorced parents, step-parents, and step-brothers and step-sisters, so he is sent up to Maine to stay with two eccentric great aunts and there gets involved with some interesting people and an unexpected mystery.
19) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the...
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