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1) 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.
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.
3) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
5) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen,...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, 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.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way West to the Oregon Trail where they hope to find the Tucket family.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 6
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Since his father died, Daniel Martin looks forward to summers with his uncle in the mountains. They have a great time practicing outdoor survival skills. But this summer his mother is sending him to Camp Eagle Nest. When he boards the camp van, Daniel's heart sinks. Three boys from school-who always tease him-are going to camp, too. Soon the driver gets lost. As the van is crossing a rickety bridge, the wooden planks break, plunging the van into the...
Author
Series
Culpepper adventures volume 6
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
13) El hacha
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 93
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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