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THE SURVIVORS CLUB
Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do...
2) Stay with me
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"Stay With Me accomplishes all we might ask of a novel….It reminds readers what great pleasures and surprises are to be found inside such rare, fine, and atmospheric novels when we're lucky enough to find them."
-Laura Kasischke, author of In a Perfect World
Stay With Me by Sandra Rodriguez Barron is a gripping and deftly written novel about the meaning of family and the bonds that create one's history. Provocative and character-rich, Stay With...
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Secret projects volume 2
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2023.
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"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
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Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 4
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IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Noah and Emma expect to be bored during their stay in Alaska, but during a day trip to a remote island, a once-dormant volcano suddenly erupts and Noah and Emma must fight to survive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
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Maze cutter trilogy volume 2
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In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever. One person's God is another person's Devil.--Publisher....
8) Red midnight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
9) The lifeboat
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In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's. The survivors quickly realise the boat is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements,...
10) Crash
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Stay alive volume 1
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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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Tomorrow series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
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"The beloved daughter of Jewish captives in Babylon, Keren is sold into Daniel's household to help her family survive. She becomes Daniel's most trusted scribe, while taking lessons and swordsmanship training alongside Daniel's sons and their best friend, Jared. But after a tragic accident changes the course of her life, Keren finds herself in a foreign country, charged with a mysterious task: teaching a shepherd boy how to become a lord. When she...
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IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"More than anything, Amelia wants to follow in her aviator mother's footsteps and learn to fly airships. But her grieving father, Commander Erroway, has forbidden her from stepping inside a cockpit since her mother disappeared on a doomed flight. When disaster strikes and Amelia is cast adrift and alone on the flagship of Commander Erroway's fleet, she eventually crash lands in a distant country. Taken in by Fin and Huxley, two inventor brothers who...
15) A dog's way home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie, Tam, overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
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"When Dahlia Weathersby's sister disappears on what should have been a simple day hike, Dahlia immediately heads deep into the Colorado Rockies to find her. Knowing she'll never survive the mountains alone, she convinces the local hermit-adorably grouchy survival expert Winston Dane-to be her guide. All it takes is a good helping of Dahlia's charm ... and just the teeniest bit of blackmail ... before she's got all six-foot-something of him wrapped...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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"26 April 1986 01:18 Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop. Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. In five minutes, Reactor...
18) The light jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
19) Paradise on fire
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
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"Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness program. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids--each with their own troubles--to spend a summer out west. Deep in the forest the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing, and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important,...
20) Zombie Season
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Zombie season volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The next innovation in the book and gaming space is here: Zombie Season! Read the book. Play the game. Fight the undead.
You know the protocol. You've completed countless drills. Yet nothing can truly prepare you for what's coming. No one is ever ready for zombie season . . .
Joule refuses to evacuate with her mom. She can't leave town while her dad's still missing. He's out there, somewhere, and Joule is going to find him. But what if he's not...
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