W. R Philbrick
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Signature
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Down East Books]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
After waking up from its winter sleep, a family of bears spends the spring in a cottage, enduring torrential rain and invading insects, until the cottage's human owners return.