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2) Dogsong
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful...
3) Nightjohn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
5) Tracker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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 coming to hate his role as hunter.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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.
7) Lawn boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Things get out of hand when a stockbroker neighbor convinces a twelve-year-old boy to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
8) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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.
9) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
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.
10) Lawn Boy returns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
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.
11) The foxman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
12) The cookcamp
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Formats
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.
13) The winter room
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Eldon, growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
14) Mudshark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
15) Tucket's gold
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
William Little Bear Tucker and his friend, Sarah, love to explore the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains. Some day the two youngsters hope to find the cave that holds a golden Apache statue that vanished long ago. But one afternoon, when they discover some spectacular rooms in one of the caverns, they also realize that they aren't alone. Suddenly, armed bandits, the spirit of a headless Indian brave, and bottomless pits are lurking in the darkness...
18) Tucket's ride
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
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.
19) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured...
20) Dunc's dump
Author
Series
Culpepper adventures volume 10
Publisher
Dell Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Camouflaged as piles of rotting trash, Dunc Culpepper and his best friend for life Amos Binder are sneaking around the town dump. Dunc wants to find out who is polluting the garbage at the dump with hazardous and toxic waste. Amos just wants to impress Melissa. Can either of them succeed?
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