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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship. When another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his distress flares and sails by, Foyle becomes a man obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and then returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Foyle also uncovers a secret...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laura Callaway daily walks the windswept Cornwall coast, known for many shipwrecks but few survivors. And when a man with curious wounds and an odd accent is washed ashore, she cares for him while the mystery surrounding him grows. Can their budding attraction survive, and can he be returned to his rightful home when danger pursues them from every side?"--
Author
Series
Castaways volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The castaways try to find a way to leave their island and return home.
13) Terrific
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Terrific," says Eugene when he wins an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. "I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." But Eugene's luck is much worse than that. His ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island.
14) Last sailor
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"All that Nathaniel Boyd wants is to be left alone on his Cap Cod salt marsh. His hopes of marriage with Meredith Butler died years ago, not long after the accidental death of his youngest brother Jacob. When their father asks the brothers to sail a schooner down from Boston to Yarmouth Port harbor, an unexpected passenger causes chaos for all the Boyds. Into this unsettled atmosphere their father dies, further churning the world as they know it....
Author
Series
Castaways volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ship to shore! Or whatever that expression is... Yup, still here on this dumb island, and still no sign of rescue. Feels like all we've been doing is hauling firewood around and gathering food. Cleaning up an island is one thing, but this is not what I signed up for! Anyway, now we're planning a dance, if you can believe that. The sky looks a little overcast, but the dance might be fun (even though it was Evil Angela's idea). Especially since I'm...
17) Beauty queens
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
18) Deirdre
Author
Series
Fires of Gleannmara volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
19) The Castaway
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation, Hubie the mouse falls out of a dirigible and is stranded on a tropical island, where a very inventive fellow castaway, Leo, helps him overcome his fears.
20) The Red Turtle
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Ent
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.