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22) This tender land
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
23) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006, 2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While trying his best to help a penguin that has shown up at his door, a boy journeys all the way to the South Pole, only to realize that the penguin was never lost.
24) You are here
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the rain keeps Mariah and Joy confined to the indoors, they create a magic map and go on a fantastic imaginary voyage.
25) Riding shotgun
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
26) A tangled web
Author
Series
Last of the Jedi volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Emperor Palpatine wants to incorporate Ferus Olin within his circle of power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.
28) Spirit Walker
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
29) Becoming Chloe
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen continues his physical and spiritual journey across the country.
31) Woman of courage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Woman of Courage Makes an Epic Journey Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and joins the work at a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her destination. Among those she meets are an Indian woman who becomes her first convert and a half-Indian trapper who seems to be her biggest critic. But love follows her...
32) Miles to go
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alan Christoffersen has lost everything he loves. Searching for hope, Alan embarks on a walk across America. As he continues on his journey, he encounters many interesting people from whom he learns lessons about love, life, and loss.
33) Lion boy
Author
Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
34) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
36) City of dragons
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by human keepers, the dragons embark on a dangerous journey to their ancient, mythical homeland of Kelsingera, and along the way form deep bonds with the humans that are severely tested during the journey's final days.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.
Author
Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti finds himself on a boat to the Caribbean where he will be sold to the Corporacy, but his parents and lion friends are in pursuit, and he is determined to outwit his captors.
40) Unsinkable
Author
Series
Titanic volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police - after she and Sophie have been arrested. Juliana's father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness. And Alfie is hiding a secret that could get him kicked off the ship immediately. The lives of...
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