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"The indispensable, indestructible guide for surviving life's sudden turns for the worse. Survival experts provide illustrated, step-by-step instructions on what you need to know FAST: How to fend off a shark ; how to take a punch ; how to deliver a baby in a taxicab ; how to survive a poisonous snake attack ; how to jump from a moving car ; how to identify a bomb ; how to escape from killer bees ; how to survive if your parachute fails to open and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.
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Mythos Academy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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The new girl at a school for mythical warriors is out to solve her classmate's murder in the New York Times bestselling author's YA fantasy series debut.
My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy—a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head with a sword. Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest.But...
6) Plague
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Gone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
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A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
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I survived volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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"It was a battle that would change the course of World War II... Eleven-year-old Paul's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all, but the soldier needs Paul's help. This...
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Last kids on Earth volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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During the first winter after the Monster Apocalypse, Jack and his buddies prepare for a monstrous Christmas celebration, but a supervillainess steals Jack's prized monster-slaying weapon, his Louisville Slicer, and he vows to get it back.
10) Brian's hunt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Two years after he survived a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild where he feels he belongs. In a temporary camp on the way to visit his friends, Brian Robeson finds a dog, wounded and whimpering. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his friends. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he...
11) Ruins
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Series
Partials sequence volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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As a war between the humans and the Partials looms, Samm finds himself trapped beyond a toxic wasteland, and Kira finds herself under the control of Dr. Morgan who is desperate to save the Partials.
12) Ashes
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
14) Brian's Winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Book of dust volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
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Gone novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series"--
17) Kiss of Frost
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Series
Mythos Academy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Now in her second year as a warrior-in-training at Mythos Academy, Gwen Frost learns that one of her fellow students is secretly a Reaper who wants her dead.
18) The wild robot
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Series
Wild robot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the...
19) Ashfall
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Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
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I survived volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
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