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I survived volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
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Atherton volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
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When the strongest earthquake in U.S. history occurs just north of their St. Louis home, Kate and Jeremy find the disaster further complicated by Kate's self-proclaimed-medium twin's prediction about a more powerful earthquake, a situation that places Kate under public scrutiny and reveals her own psychic abilities.
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Magic tree house volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
9) Quake
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Clawing north, navigating the ruined city amidst violent aftershocks, FBI agent Hector Mendoza hopes to reunite with his wife. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Dykstra is hell-bent on finding his daughter way uptown at Columbia University - before a 9/11 conspirator who escaped during the quake finds her first. But the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 40 miles north, is severely damaged. A deadly cloud of radiation is drifting toward the city. The only...
13) Outrun the Moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
"On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
14) Eruption
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Storm Runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
15) Neighbors
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"Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
19) 10.5 (DVD)
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English
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An earthquake trembles with a 7.9 magnitutde. It's the biggest natural disaster to hit the West Coast in over a century. The aftershock hits Northern California, reaching 8.4, splitting the earth adn swallowing a train. The chance of an aftershock being greater thatn the quake is virtually unprecedented. Dr. Smantha Hill, an expert on hidden fault lines, and the President of the United States must race against time to save the lives of millions.
20) Cave-in
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Stay alive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
A group of kids on a field trip on a coastal island are abandoned after an earthquake hits and the fort they are studying collapses. At first they are trapped inside but after escaping the cave-in, they realize debris from the collapse has destroyed all of their supplies. How long can they survive there? Will anyone come to rescue them?
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