ELA

Shipwreck: Island, Book 1 (Unabridged)

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Six kids. One fate. Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian. They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's no easy way out. And when a terrifying storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival.

Author:

Gordon Korman

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

610L

Length:

02:29

Survival: Island, Book 2 (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

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Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island. Stranded. Separated.

Six kids are stuck on a desert island. They have no food. No shelter. Nobody knows they are lost. They must take from the island in order to survive. But what if they're not alone?

Author:

Gordon Korman

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

600L

Length:

02:57

Survival: Island, Book 2 (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

Island III: Escape (Unabridged Fiction)

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Six Kids. One Shipwreck. A Desert Island.

Things were bad enough when Luke, Lyssa, Will, J.J., Ian, and Charla were stuck alone on the island. But now they have company--really bad company. Plus, Will is seriously injured and needs help immediately. Before, escape was something the kids could only hope for. Now it's a matter of life and death.

Author:

Gordon Korman

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

620L

Length:

02:33

Thirteen Reasons Why (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

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Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice explains that there are 13 reasons she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.

Author:

Jay Asher

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

550L

Length:

12:50

Thirteen Reasons Why (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Unabridged)

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This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than 50 violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives.

Author:

Ishmael Beah

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

920L

Length:

07:56

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Unabridged)

Children of the Longhouse (Unabridged)

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When Ohkwa'ri overhears a group of older boys planning a raid on a neighboring village, he immediately tells his Mohawk elders. He has done the right thing - but he has also made enemies. Grabber and his friends will do anything they can to hurt him, especially during the village-wide game of Tekwaarathon (lacrosse).

Author:

Joseph Bruchac

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

950L

Length:

03:35

Brighton Beach Memoirs

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In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930s Brooklyn, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness, long-held sibling resentment, and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe.

Author:

Neil Simon

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:55

A Lesson Before Dying (Abridged Fiction)

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Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, a university-trained teacher at the plantation school, is persuaded to visit Jefferson in his cell. Wiggins is torn between staying in his native Cajun community or moving on.

Author:

Ernest J. Gaines

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

750L

Length:

03:03