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1) The Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
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,...
3) Fear
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 5
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As the young residents of Perdido Beach begin to better comprehend the truths of who they are and their relationships to one another, the Darkness finds a new way to be born, bringing their understanding of fear to a new level.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Zack Clarke's sleepover turns into chaos when Zombies invade.
5) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
6) The storm
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ruby's fight for survival continues in a post-apocalyptic world where the rain is deadly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
To get the answers he seeks about his powerful Cosmic Hand, which might be able to stop the inevitable from happening, Jack must travel farther than he’s ever been--he must go to the monster dimension.
11) Lost at sea
Author
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister recount their harrowing experiences as they sail a small yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, after their mentally unstable mother's boyfriend is washed overboard.
12) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
13) Sludgment day
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With the zombie antidote in hand, Zack Clarke and his team of zombie chasers embark on a wild cross-country road trip to end the undead apocalypse once and for all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Gameknight999 finds himself teleported into the digital world of the game "Minecraft" and discovers some of its best-kept secrets, but to survive from zombies and spiders, he must learn to make friends and work as a part of a team.
Author
Publisher
A Feiwel and Friends book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When an English city boy named Makur visits India, the land of his ancestors, for a funeral, he is carried away by a flash flood and must call on all his knowledge and skills to survive on his own in the jungle and make his way to safety.
16) Autumn: the city
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A disease of unimaginable ferocity has torn across the face of the planet, leaving billions dead. A small group of survivors shelter in the remains of a devastated city, hiding in terror as the full effects of the horrific infection start to become clear. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers again threatens the survivors' fragile existence. Do they bring with them hope, help, and answers, or more pain, fear, and suffering?"--P. [4] of cover....
17) Monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
It's been four years since the invisible dome that was created by an alien virus appeared over Perdido Beach. Inside the dome, animals began to mutate and the teens remaining the dome developed dangerous powers. Now the dome has disappeared, but meteors are hitting the Earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans all over the world will mutate into monsters and as some teens begin to turn into heroes, they find that others are out of control and that...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries...
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
Author
Series
Skylark trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lark Ainsley has yearned to become an adult by having her magical energy harvested, but when she is finally chosen a special talent is revealed and, rather than become a human battery powering the dome that protects humanity, she escapes hoping to find the Iron Wood, a wilderness rumored to be inhabited by others like herself.