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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children. By the author of The Weight of Water.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When a plane bound for Costa Rica crashes in deep jungle, the tail section breaks free and nineteen teenagers miraculously survive. Joel Aspinall, son of a local politician and student rep on the school's council, is quick to take on the mantle of leadership, to organize everyone until a rescue party arrives. But the plane was crashed on purpose, no one knows where they are and no rescuers are coming. To make things worse, Joel's decisions lead to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Lawyer Michael Ashmore uses his influence as legal counsel for an airline to save his brother's career, a pilot who tested positive for drugs. The brother keeps flying, his plane crashes and 100 people die. When drugs are detected in his body, Ashmore is charged with reckless homicide. Now he has to save his own skin and he thinks he can find a way.
7) Alive
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Incredible true story of a band of crash survivors isolated in the high Andes, and how they survived by resorting to cannibalism.
8) Skeleton man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.
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