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3) Trout summer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother spend a largely unsupervised summer in a cabin near a river, where they befriend an elderly man with much to teach them and where they try to come to terms with their parents' failing marriage and make decisions about their own futures.
5) Loon chase
Author
Publisher
Sylvan Dell Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A mother and son enjoy a peaceful canoe trip until their dog's instinct to chase birds adds excitement to the trip. Includes information about loons and directions for making a loon mask.
6) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.
7) Up the creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
Description
A bear, a moose, and a beaver who are best friends, but often disagree, have a trying adventure when they decide to take a canoe trip together. The trio's squabbling leads them into rough waters. Can they agree on a plan before it's too late?
Author
Publisher
Move Books
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Billy and his dad are injured, Tom summons the courage to get back on the water. This time, he must travel in a rickety old homemade canoe through the Alaska wilderness to get help. But it's not just the canoe and the terrain he has to worry about--he's surrounded by dangerous adversaries. Are his skills enough to fight them off or will his journey be cut short and Billy and his father left stranded?
9) River
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City. Includes a note on the history of the Hudson River.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
13) River day
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Alex goes canoeing on the river with her grandfather, in the hope of seeing the bald eagle that is nesting nearby.
Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 2
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Lured by the canoe-sized legend of a two-hundred-year-old fish, the gang packs their bags for a canoe trip upriver. Dragonfly spills the beans to the local town bullies, who follow the gang in hopes of beating them to the catch.
16) Downriver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
17) Moana
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Moana is on a mission to cross the vast ocean and restore the heart of Te Fiti--the mother island. But first she must find Maui, the once-mighty demigod who stole the heart, and convice him to help her!"--
18) Ocean's child
Author
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An expectant mother and her child canoe along the Alaskan Beaufort seacoast, viewing Arctic marine wildlife.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spirited Polynesian teenager Moana sets sail in search of a fabled island and along the way teams up with her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui, to traverse the open sea. They are on a voyage to return the heart of Te Fiti and save Moana's village.
20) Wild river
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.