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1) Boy X
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Ash McCarthy discovers that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica where he is caught in the middle of a secret project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both.
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...
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After six years of no word from her best friend, Logan, he shows up on the doorstep of the remote Alaskan cabin Maddie and her father live in with an assailant in pursuit.
Author
Series
Alaska Air One Rescue volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When music star Oaken Fox joins Alaska Air One Rescue for a reality show, he must work with Boo Kingston, a female EMT who isn't impressed with his fame. She needs a trained rescuer - especially if they're going to find a group of lost hikers. But when a blizzard hits and the search goes south, can he become a real hero, or are they headed for tragedy?"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.