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1) Stranded
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
3) The web
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 10
Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware received an all-expenses-paid trip to the South Pacific in return for helping Dr. Moreland organize some paperwork, but secretive houseguests, midnight visitors, and Dr. Moreland's elusive personality soon reveal a shocking truth.
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Six kids shipwrecked on an obscure Pacific island urgently need a plan to get home when they realize they are sharing their living space with a deadly group of smugglers--and the situation grows even more dire when the smugglers stumble across an atomic bomb left there in 1945.
6) The sabotage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
How much would you sacrifice? How far could you go? When Carter, Vanessa, Buzz, and Jane found themselves stranded on Shadow Island, they had no idea what they were getting into. Now, one of their group is missing, and the stakes just keep getting higher. This is going to be a fight to the finish if they ever want to make it home again. It������s going to take courage. It������s going to take strength. It������s...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
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Description
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,...
8) Mortal fire
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When sixteen-year-old Canny of the Pacific island, Southland, sets out on a trip with her stepbrother and his girlfriend, she finds herself drawn into enchanting Zarene Valley where the mysterious but dark seventeen-year-old Ghislain helps her to figure out her origins.
9) Gideon's war
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Series
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Description
Exposed to covert information by his work as an international negotiator, Gideon Davis is tapped by a government bigwig to chaperone a rogue agent, Gideon's brother, whose surrender is foiled by a terrorist plot involving a multi-million-dollar oil rig.
10) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued: and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.
15) The night island
Author
Series
Lost night files volume 2
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Description
"The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in the second novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities...
16) Reckless girls
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Description
When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She's also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off...
17) Crossings
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 4
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Description
The United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japanś empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself. Shaara relates the story of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, a young marine and General Mitsura Ushijima,...