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1) The Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery,...
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Language
English
Description
"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut." -Pam Houston,...
3) The wall
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
4) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The Robinson family blast off into space to escape a dying Earth and find an unspoiled planet for humanity's second chance. They face many challenges, not the least of which is the new serpent in the garden--the evil Dr. Zachary Smith
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.
11) Robinson, Crusoe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
12) On the island
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Language
English
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Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher in need of adventure. Worn down by cold Chicago winters and a stagnant relationship, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T. J. Callahan, who is catching up after a year spent battling cancer into remission. But en route to the Callahan's summer home their private plane crashes, stranding Anna and T.J. on an uninhabited island. And as the days turn...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
14) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Defoe's story about an Englishman who becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
15) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"When young Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea in search of adventure, he gets more than he bargained for. Shipwrecked on a remote island with no hope of rescue, he will need all his skill and ingenuity just to stay alive. The most famous adventure story in the English language is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format."--P. [4] of cover.