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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the...
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Language
English
Description
"Gripping stories of near disaster and survival-and the lessons to be gleaned from them-from the British military's chief survival instructor. When faced with near death, your survival instincts kick in. Instincts can only take you so far, however; it's preparation and planning that can make the difference between living and dying. In How to Survive, readers will hear harrowing tales of survival and learn from them. These stories are broken down and...
7) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Deadly trackers: After witnessing the brutal murder of his wife and son, a Texas lawman seeks revenge and relentlessly pursues the outlaws into Mexico where a deadly showdown awaits him.
Man in the wilderness: Driven by revenge, Harris makes a 600 mile journey across the 1820's American Northwest facing every obstacle to find his attackers.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing]
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Improve your survival skills is one of the first titles in the Superskills series. Packed with reliable expert information, it will help you win through in tricky situations, ranging from struggling through a snowdrift to dodging danger in a big city. There is a wealth of facts about survival kits, first aid, food, shelter and map-reading. Clear illustrations show how to get to grips with survival techniques. While stressing the importance of avoiding...
12) Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxi, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the art and science of survival through recounting incidents of failed and survived emergency conditions.
13) I am still alive
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Build shelter. Find water. Make fire. Seek revenge. There are two beginnings to this story. One of them is on a tarmac in Alaska. The other's standing on a lakeshore with the rain falling on me like mist, the cabin's timbers smoldering, sullen and red. I'll tell you both stories, what happened before my father died and what happened after. And when I'm done or when I am too weak to write anymore, I'll leave this notebook where the cabin was. If someone...
14) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.
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Language
English
Description
On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[In this biography, author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood.] If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the Army,...
17) Hunting time
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
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Language
English
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Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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