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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
"It's 3:05 on Sunday, April 27, 2003. This marks my twenty-four-hour mark of being stuck in Blue John Canyon. My name is Aron Ralston. My parents are Donna and Larry Ralston, of Englewood, Colorado. Whoever finds this, please make an attempt to get this to them. Be sure of it. I would appreciate it."
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The polygamous Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something -- but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence, they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through...
5) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Kate, seeking distraction from her recent diabetes diagnosis, begins dating Aidan, a young veteran who lost an arm in Afghanistan, and the two soon realize that they might mean more to each other than they first thought.