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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary sailors struggling to stay alive on a life raft in the throes of violent waves eighty feet tall. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the four intrepid Coast Guardsmen who braved the sea and this ruthless storm, hoping to rescue the stranded sailors"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the huge steamship on which they are traveling runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based.
6) The promise
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Mallory's search for happiness leads her to a faraway place. There she finds heartache,betrayal and danger. Can the only man she's ever loved rescue her before it's too late? Mallory Hammond is determined not to let her boyfriend, parents, or anyone else get in the way of her goal to save a life. She had that chance when she was a teenager, and the opportunity slipped away, leaving a void she's desperate to fill. Then a new friend she met online...
7) Sully
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed "Sully" glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.
Now a Major Motion Picture...
10) Survive a fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about how to survive a fire. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
11) Lifeguard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the duties, challenges, and rewards of the occupation, including the basic routine of a lifeguard's work day, different rescue techniques that they use, and required certifications and training for the job.
12) The Guardian
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
15) Me and me
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In a canoe trip gone terribly wrong, the little girl that 17-year-old Lark babysits and the boy Lark is dating fall into the lake at the same moment. They are both drowning, and Lark can only save one of them in time. In this critical moment, Lark's world splits into two, and the rest of the novel takes us, in alternating sections, through the consequences of both choices. In one life, Lark and Alec are falling in love while Annabelle is hospitalized...
16) Ladder 49
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
What's it like to work in the dangerous field of search and rescue? It all depends on where help is needed! Explore the differences between mountain and wilderness, cave, urban, and combat search and rescue. In this book, readers in grades 4-8 will learn how the heroic efforts of a few save the lives of many. This high interest, low reading level series gives readers an exciting photo- and fact-filled look at some of the most dangerous jobs on the...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.