Joseph Monninger
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A romantic, vivid novel that takes place in the tender time of a young woman's life: Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around Europe with her two best friends. She's left school responsibility behind and adult responsibility is looming, but this is her one, ONE last summer to be free. Heather doesn't expect to even meet Jack, let alone fall in love with him. Jack is an enigmatic Vermonter a few years older than she is, who is following...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
From the day Jonathan Cobb and Mary Fury meet on the banks of Maine's remote Allagash River, they approach life with the same adventurous spirit with which they conquer the river's treacherous rapids. Rivers don't let go easily-- and the life they love demands that they confront a grim reality, and subsequently, the most challenging of choices.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Goodbye to Clocks Ticking is an unforgettable book that tells the story of a singular year of challenges, insights, and peculiar gifts. It is also a sort of postcard from a place many of us will one day visit. After thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's...
4) Crash
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
5) Cave-in
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids on a field trip on a coastal island are abandoned after an earthquake hits and the fort they studying collapses. At first they are trapped inside but after escaping the cave-in, they realize debris from the collapse has destroyed all of their supplies. How long can they survive there? Will anyone come rescue them?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Barn Whimbril is a shark-obsessed sixth grader living in Florida. When a deadly shark attack happens in a canal near his home, he heads off to the scene. As he tries to figure out what has caused these bull sharks to become more aggressive, Barn will face several hazards both in and out of the water.
7) Game change
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncle's auto repair shop and cruise through school without much effort. He's a quarterback on his high school's undefeated football team, but he never plays. Why would he when T.T. Munroe--a walking, talking highlight real-- is around? That is, until T.T's injured a week before the state championships. Now Zeb is starting. As he assumes the role of QB and team leader, the entire town is watching...
8) Baby
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Baby's last chance at foster care is with the Potters, and while she likes them and enjoys learning to race their sled dogs, she feels she should go back on the streets with her boyfriend if she cannot find the mother who has deserted her again.
9) Breakdown
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When the bus carrying a group of kids home from summer camp breaks down on an abandoned road during a heatwave, the group must survive the elements and find help, over sixty miles away.
11) Hippie chick
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
After her sailboat capsizes, fifteen-year-old Lolly Emmerson is rescued by manatees and taken to a mangrove key in the Everglades, where she forms a bond with her aquatic companions while struggling to survive.
12) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Determined to set an old horse free, sixteen-year-old Hattie and eighteen-year-old Delores head west in search of rangeland on a road trip that takes unexpected turns as the girls get their own taste of freedom and confront the reasons they left home.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A lifetime of friendship begins the day brothers Ed and Allard save Sarah from drowning in an icy river near their rural New Hampshire home. Though their paths diverge through the years, the connection between the three endures until a heartbreaking tragedy in the remote mountains of Wyoming forces Sarah and Allard to confront the unthinkable. In their grief, they find themselves on separate journeys that test the enduring bonds of their relationship...
15) The letters
Author
Language
English
Description
A series of letters reveals the emotional odyssey and evolution of one couple's relationship as they fall in love, confront the loss of an adult child, and struggle to rediscover who they each are and what they mean to each other in the wake of the tragedy.