Ben Mikaelsen
1) Stranded
Author
Pub. Date
1996,c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Cole Matthews returns to civilization after his year of exile in the Alaskan wilderness and is ready to face high school, but when the school bullies begin to target his friend, Peter, Cole feels his rage once again coming to the surface and worries high school may prove harder to survive than the wilderness.
5) Petey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, after he is moved to a nursing home, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life
6) Countdown
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Masai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.
8) Tree Girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
9) Red midnight
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.