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4) Mayday!
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 184
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
You are the copilot along with your cousin, Eddie, on a small Polaris 180 airplane. Through bad weather and mechanical difficulties, you and Eddie fly supplies to people who live in remote areas all over Alaska. Things start to go wrong when Eddie is knocked unconscious and you have to fly the plane all by yourself.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang -- pilot, adventurer, spy -- isn't afraid. These three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for...
8) The squadron
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
Description
Sera Visser is one of the few selected for a chance to be part of Zeta Squadron, an elite group of space pilots. All she needs to do is complete one flight, from the Old World to the New Colonies. During the flight, damage to one of her engines sends her off course. She crashes onto a violent dwarf planet with a molton core that is slowly devouring its surface. And that might be the least of her worries.
9) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Carl Fredricksen, a retired balloon salesman, is part rascal, part dreamer who is ready for his last chance of high-flying excitement. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets off to the lost world of his childhood dreams. Unbeknownst to Carl, Russell, an overeager eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer who has never ventured beyond his backyard, is in the wrong place at the wrong time--Carl's front porch! The world's most unlikely duo reach...
10) Lancaster skies
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary Spitfire ace who survived the Battle of Brditain, transfers to Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies over Nazi Germany. Miller must take the place of a Lancaster bomber crew's cherished and respected skipper, who was killed in action. Though the crew is against him, he will try to gain their trust and overcome the darkness in his past to become the leader they so desperately need in the pivotal...
11) Blue Thunder
Language
English
Description
Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank Murphy is amazed by the capabilities of the high-speed, high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner learn the remarkable craft is slated for use as the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control.
12) Up
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...