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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Description
"Tamsin Wright is unstoppable. She must become the Glittering Court's diamond: the girl with the highest test scores, the most glamorous wardrobe, and the greatest opportunities to match with an elite suitor in the New World. Training alongside other girls in the Glittering Court, Tamsin immerses herself completely in lessons about etiquette, history, and music--everything a high-society wife would need to know. Once she's married, she'll be able...
4) El astillero
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Larsen, el conocido Larsen de La vida breve, el hombre que "creyó de una manera y ahora sigue creyendo de otra, que no nació para morir sino para ganar e imponerse", regresa a Santa María cinco años después de que el gobernador decidiera expulsarlo, para consumar su venganza. Nada ha cambiado demasiado en esa pequeña ciudad imaginaria, en la que el astillero se levanta con la convicción de un espejismo, y al que Larsen se acerca para, quizás,...
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
7) Overboard
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Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic, based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk.
At first, no one but the lookout recognized the sound. Passengers described it as the impact of a heavy wave, a scraping noise, or the tearing of a long calico strip. In fact, it was the sound of the world’s most famous ocean liner striking an iceberg,...
At first, no one but the lookout recognized the sound. Passengers described it as the impact of a heavy wave, a scraping noise, or the tearing of a long calico strip. In fact, it was the sound of the world’s most famous ocean liner striking an iceberg,...
10) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Recounts the discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following years to researching the identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts and breaking new ground in the world of diving.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The Wilhelm Gustloff Story studies the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger liner sunk in World War II's closing months while carrying thousands of refugees. Vivid text and images bring the ship to life, examining its construction, technology, crew, and passengers, as well as its place in history. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com....
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