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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
470 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
4) Overboard!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Travis and twelve-year-old Stacey, separated from their families after being thrown into the Pacific off the coast of Washington, battle hypothermia as they struggle to survive. Includes Coast Guard-approved cold-water survival tips.
Author
Series
Island volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
129 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
They did not want to be on the boat with strangers, but you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with no way out.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan-and victory. At the heart of the fleet are...
Author
Series
(Peter T.),World War II novels volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction. The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on the true story of the USS Hayward (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort which has spent the past two years in the unforgiving battle for survival against the German U-boats of the North Atlantic. Summoned to relieve destroyers that are bogged down by escort duty...