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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only...
3) Northwind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
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In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in...
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[2024]
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302 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
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"Four climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness to climb a newly discovered cliff face. But things start going wrong as soon as their expedition begins, suggesting something sinister may be present in the valley with them"--
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Protecting the evidence means facing down assassins and an unforgiving wilderness... Framed for murder and corporate espionage, future aerotech company CEO Haley Whitcombe flees in her plane with a camera full of evidence that could clear her name -- until she's shot out of the sky. Now trapped in North Cascades National Park, her survival in the wilderness depends on park ranger Ezra Dalton. Yet escaping the wild will mean nothing if they can't outrun...
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2019.
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291 pages ; 22 cm.
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After the Ute Indian boy Thomas Black Bull has been betrayed both by his own people and by the white man, he dedicates himself to killing the legends that gave him his distinction and his pride - and becomes a man without a dream, with emptiness inside him.
10) Hatchet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
11) The great alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, on a hike in the Maine woods with her brother and recently divorced mother, steps off the trail and suddenly finds herself lost. As Trisha wanders the woods, the listener is given the back story of her family, friends, fears, and triumphs. King vividly depicts Trisha's psychological turmoil, from the first fluttering of nervous disorientation to full-blown hallucinations. And, as Trisha clings to sanity, listeners will...
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2016
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424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is unprepared to search for his estranged father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, it's up to Ethan to keep looking. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father"--
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[2015]
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252 pages ; 22 cm
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"When the young William Wyeth leaves St. Louis for a fur-trapping expedition, he nearly loses his life and quickly discovers the depth of loyalty among the men who must depend on one another to survive. While convalescing, he falls in love with proud Alene, a young widow who may or may not wait for him. And on a wildly risky expedition into Crow territory, Wyeth finds himself unwittingly at the center of a deadly boundary dispute among Native American...
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Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
16) Colter's journey
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Tim Colter novels volume 1
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"Leaving their Pennsylvania home to forge a new life in the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill crazy gang of Indians on the Oregon Trail. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide--only to return and find his parents butchered, his sisters Nancy and Margaret missing. Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless wilderness, hoping to save his sisters...
17) Haven: a novel
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2022.
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vii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
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In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon...
18) Darkest night
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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After the SkyClan returns to its rightful place among the warrior clans, not all the cats are convinced this is where the SkyClan belongs, leaving the clans' fate uncertain.
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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226 pages ; 24 cm
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"Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared near their families camp in a boat accident, Nate is still haunted by nightmares. Hed been planning to make the treacherous trek to the remote campsite with a friend his first time in winter without his survival-savvy father. But when his friend gets grounded, Nate secretly decides to brave the trip solo in a journey thats half pilgrimage, half desperate hope he will find his missing friend when...
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Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins' B and B in Lost Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The sprawling forest surrounding the lodge can be harsh and unforgiving, but when Alex meets rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell, he offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from...
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