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61) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
62) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
123 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, tells a hangman and British officer the story of the Donner Party, a doomed wagon train traveling from Illinois to California in 1846.
64) Watch wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Faolan, poised to take his place as a member of the revered Wolves of the Watch, may be the only one who can stop Dunbar MacHeath and his clan from provoking a war between the Watch and the bears.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice Mistlethwaite persuades her boarding school friends, Jesse and Fergus, to set out on an off-the-grid adventure in which they face storms, illness, injury, and international jewel thieves.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
67) White bird
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandm�ere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perc�e village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perc�e Indians.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
71) Generation one
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Taylor Cook develops incredible abilities, she finds herself at the Human Garde Academy, where the Loric are training the new generation of Garde to control her powers.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 7
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
147 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
75) The long winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
76) Treasure hunters
Author
Series
[Treasure hunters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.
77) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Six kids from around the world have been chosen for the first-ever mission to Mars and Miranda Regent is one of them. But as soon as the announcement is made, protesters worldwide claim the selection process was rigged -- and that Miranda was only chosen because she's American. Soon she's getting anonymous threatening messages. When the training base is attacked, it looks like Miranda is the intended target. Now the entire mission and everyone's...
79) Finding bear
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While journeying to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic, April Wood discovers a tiny polar bear cub in desperate need of her help, and in freezing temperatures and on dangerous terrain, she must face her deepest fears to save him"--
80) The Marvels
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...