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3) Baby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death of their own infant son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Emily is headed to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation with friends and family. And this time, Emily promises her best friend, Shona, there will be absolutely no adventure just plenty of fun. But somehow excitement always seems to find Emily, and before she knows it, she ends up on the other side of a powerful waterfall on a forgotten island no one else can get to.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A bilingual story, inspired by the childhood of Valentina Cruz, whose family was one of the first permanent inhabitants of the Galapagos islands. Valentina makes a promise to protect the islands and her animal friends"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant"--Provided by publisher.
10) Turtle Island
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A giant turtle's loneliness ends when a boatload of animals is shipwrecked and makes a temporary home on his shell. But when they decide to sail for home, will the turtle be alone once more?
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Sam McGuffin stows away on Santa's sleigh one Christmas Eve, intending to visit the North Pole, but instead he discovers the secret island paradise where Santa and his elves vacation every year when their work is done.
12) Island's end
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.
14) Fog Island
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
No one has ever returned from the mysterious Fog Island, but when Finn and Cara get castaway on its murky shores, they discover things are not quite as they expect. Will anyone ever believe them?
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eggbert, a planter's son on a pirate-infested Caribbean island chain, is on the run from a wealthy and powerful villain trying to kill him for his connection to a hidden treasure.
17) Mouse island
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One dark, stormy, autumn night a child hears the animals on Klickitat Island crying because they have no shelter, and the child's Beary proposes a daring plan to help them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who comes to live on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
20) Islandborn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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"--
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