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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
On a beach, Boston journalist Theresa Osborne finds a bottle thrown up by the sea with a love letter from a man to his dead wife. Theresa, a divorcee searching for love, is so moved by it she tracks the man to his yacht in North Carolina and a romance follows. By the author of The Notebook.
7) The storm
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the smoldering hulk of a NUMA research vessel in the Indian Ocean and soon uncover an audacious scheme to permanently alter the weather on a global scale, killing millions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
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#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,...
11) Passenger
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful...
13) Challenger deep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
14) Lenobia's vow
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The gripping story behind the House of Night's enigmatic riding instructor--and one of Zoey's closest allies against evil.
15) Undertow
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day Coney Island.
16) Dark Shores
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Series
Publisher
Tor Teen, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In a world divided by meddlesome gods and treacherous oceans, only the Maarin possess the knowledge to cross the Endless Seas. But they have one mandate: East must never meet West.
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.--
1889. Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York on the opulent RMS Etruria. When young women begin to go missing, a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. As Audrey Rose and Thomas begin to piece together the gruesome investigation,...
18) Kamikazes
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Examines the events and personalities that were instrumental in Japan's adoption of kamikazi, or suicide, missions in the later stages of World War II.
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