Will Hobbs
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
3) Far North
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
7) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
9) Jason's gold
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
10) Ghost canoe
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
11) Beardream
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Short Tail climbs the mountain to find the Great Bear, he tires, falls asleep, and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret.