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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
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The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The mouselings are headed on a fabumouse mission-- to the moon! After much preparation, the mice blast off. But when they arrive at their lunar vacation spot, things start to go wrong, including spaceship wrecks and rebellious robots. Can the Thea sisters save the day?
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Series
Flight 29 down volume 7
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While Daley and the others are safe at the campsite, Abby is roughing it in the jungle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
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The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...
12) The tempest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents the annotated text of the darkly humorous play about Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who is exiled to a magical island with his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.
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Series
Espasa juvenil volume 73
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Spanish translation of "Robinson Crusoe". During a voyage in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives with his sole native companion Friday, for almost thirty years on a desert island before being rescued. For junior high (7-9) and high (10-12) school students.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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In the summer of 1723, 8 boys and 3 men were marooned on a rocky stack in the middle of the sea at the edge of the Outer Hebrides. This book tells the story of how they survived nine months of deadly storms, madness and starvation with only a few ropes and baskets, and their own fortitude and endurance to save them.
15) Robinson Crusoe
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Defoe's story about an Englishman who becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, eighteen-year-old Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to travel the world in 1659, and ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island where he lives for more than twenty-eight years, facing many dangers with a native he rescues from cannibals, and calls Friday.
Pub. Date
1962.
Description
Mary Grant has received a message in a bottle from her missing father, a sea captain. She enlists Jacques Paganel, a French geographer, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, and other searchers to rescue him as they travel the 37th parallel in South America and Australia.
18) Terrific
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Terrific," says Eugene when he wins an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. "I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." But Eugene's luck is much worse than that. His ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island.