Rosanne Parry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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A New York Times bestseller.
This gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf's incredible journey to find a safe place to call home. Illustrated throughout, this irresistible tale by award-winning author Rosanne Parry is for fans of Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan. Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Exiled from his band, a young, wild horse must find his way across treacherous terrain to reunite with his family after being captured for the Pony Express. Horn Book calls A Horse Named Sky “engrossing and fast-paced.” This “Voice on the Wilderness” novel is an enthralling survival story about wild horses, family bonds, and a changing environment.
Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tsunami in Japan, cousins Jet and Kai spend the summer together in Astoria, Oregon, training for the Young's Bay Treasure Island Race and become close friends in the process.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny O'Carolan and his sister, Kathleen, arrive in New York City in 1863. Kathleen refuses to be parted from her only remaining relative, so she finds a job in domestic service for herself and her younger...sister. Danny reluctantly pretends to be a girl to avoid being sent to the children's workhouse or recruited as a drummer boy for the Union army. When he occasionally sneaks off to spend a few hours as a boy and share his rich...
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Deutsch
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Als der junge Wolf Flink von seinem Rudel getrennt und aus seinem Revier in den Wäldern vertrieben wird, begibt er sich auf die Suche nach einem neuen Zuhause. Auf seiner gefahrvollen Reise begegnet er Jägern, Waldbränden, einem "schwarzen Fluss" voller "Krachmacher" und dem Hunger—aber auch einem freundlichen Raben und der Schönheit der Natur.
Die poetische Erzählung beruht auf dem wahren Leben des Wolfs "Journey", der über 1 600 Kilometer...