Theodore Taylor
1) The cay
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Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
4) The weirdo
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Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
5) Ice drift
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Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
Accelerated Reader 5.4.
Lexile 890L.
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"In 1882, Black botanist and mycologist Charles S. Parker sprouted up in the lush, green Pacific Northwest. From the beginning, Charles's passion was plants, and he trudged through forests, climbed mountains, and waded into lakes to find them. When he wasdrafted to fight in World War I, Charles experienced prejudice against Black soldiers and witnessed the massive ecological devastation that war caused. Those experiences made him even more determined...