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21) Airman
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.
22) Party Games
Author
Series
Fear Street Novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Despite her friend's warning, Rachel is excited to attend Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island, but soon someone introduces a game of murder and all of the guests are in danger.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina-- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
29) La isla de Abel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Lexile measure
910L
Language
Español
Description
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rory lives with his father on an island and one day, when his father needs some quiet time, Rory decides to go on an adventure by himself for the first time, unaware that his father's following behind to help.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novel adaption of Ransom Riggs' "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" in which sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
35) The humming room
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Roo Fanshaw, who has a talent for hiding, is sent to live with his estranged uncle in his on Cough Rock Island, where he discovers the secrets of the largely uninhabited house and its hidden garden.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in North America by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they...
37) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"--
39) Ghost Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"You are on a sailing trip with your family and two of your friends in the Carribbean [sic]. One night you stop on the island of Antigua. Some children who live there tell you that the island is haunted by a ghost. They are going to spy on the ghost as soon as the sun sets. Should you go with them, or go by yourself to meet this ghost? Are you brave enough for Ghost Island?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan -- a love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul -- Kidd charts...
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