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Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Charlie loves a challenge. He's addicted to video games and an expert at figuring out how to get to the next level. But sometimes the real world can seem a bit dull. Then he finds himself on the slopes of an active volcano, with red-hot lava heading his way! There's no time to be bored with Bear as his guide out of danger.
42) Golden
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Nat's bond to her drakon is fraying quickly, and Wes is at death's door after trying to save his sister, Eliza. Desperate to escape New Kandy, Wes accepts help from a strange voice out of the Blue, leading Nat and the crew into even more dangerous surroundings, where their only chance lies with Nat and her quest to replace the old world with a new one.
43) Wildfire run
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
45) Raptor
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
52) In Darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
Description
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Appears on these lists
Description
"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...
54) Deep water
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
55) Nemesis
Author
Series
Project Nemesis volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Fire Lake, Idaho.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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...
58) Wolf storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Three young actors shooting a movie in the snow-covered Carpathian Mountains are separated from base camp by a terrible blizzard and come face-to-face with a pack of hungry wolves.
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fatima is having fun camping with her friends, but she is afraid the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.