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62) Sea change
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family home on Selkie Island, seventeen-year-old Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.
64) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
65) Solstice
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
Author
Series
Storm keeper's island volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with his older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.
68) Shark trouble
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two monkeys on neighboring islands want to get together for banana milkshakes, but first they must figure out how to avoid the hungry sharks that live in the water between them.
69) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
70) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Grandpa ends up miserable in the hospital, Gottfried Junior makes a plan to help him get to the island where he lived with Grandma one last time.
71) Teeth
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Rudy's life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote, magical island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother, Dylan. While Dylan recovers, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into his loneliness"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
Author
Series
Life in the wild volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although he lives in the wild, this timid, wide-eyed moose is anything but. While his friends go puddle jumping in the rain, he cowers under an umbrella, and he looks on shivering when others go skiing: "Not this moose. Too cold." Sensing he's "missing out on something," the moose decides to "take life by the antlers" and sets sail in a boat that breaks apart in a storm. Stranded on a remote island, he not only summons survival skills-foraging for...
77) Notorious
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
78) Island boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England.
79) Midwinter blood
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
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