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1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
3) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Book Description: Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his...
4) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Tracker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and hating his role as hunter.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation
8) Lawn boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
9) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin
10) Brian's winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet
11) Alida's song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
13) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes
14) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
16) The quilt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life
17) The cookcamp
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness
18) The haymeadow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bobbie always spends her summers breaking horses and rounding up stray cattle on Grandpa's ranch. But this year is different. Alex, her cousin from Los Angeles, is visiting. And Bobbie doesn't want to ruin her summer teaching a "city greenhorn" what to do. While saddling up their horses to search for cattle, the two girls start a vicious feud. But when they run into the horrible Bledsoe boys and a wild bull, they must depend on each other to survive!...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes in the Pacific, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
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