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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With his intelligent poodle, Charlie, as his traveling companion, John Steinbeck re-explores his native United States in a camping truck. This book is comprised of his conversations with people throughout the country and his personal observations.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
"Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's...
5) Anthem
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilisation he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark...
6) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
Publisher description for "The road"--"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The "story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and bask in the bonds of love."--Page 4 of cover.
9) Wayfarer
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robbed of the powerful object she needed to save her mother, time traveler Etta Spencer is stranded far from home and the privateer she loves before resolving to destroy the astrolabe, a mission that is challenged by a shattering revelation.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
11) Rainbow Mars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an effort to repopulate the Earth after almost all life has been destroyed, Hanville Svetz travels to Mars, in hopes of retrieving some of Earth's now extinct animal life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Jack and Kate met, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks. Jack falls-- hard. But then Kate dies. Somehow Kate's death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate's there again. Healthy, happy,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
14) The Oregon trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. Map.
15) Passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries by bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, Alexandra Bracken"--
"In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves... Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial. And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she's moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister's killer and a courtroom full...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.
Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're...
18) First love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
20) Invictus
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past. During a routine heist on the sinking Titanic, Far...
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