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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
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From the over-exuberant parrot Mak to the snack-obsessed tapir Rosie, from the persnickety echidna Epi to the acrobatic pangolin Pango, from the ditzy goat Scrubby to the commonsensical kingfisher Kiki and the always-cool chameleon Carmello, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering...
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Espasa juvenil volume 73
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Spanish translation of "Robinson Crusoe". During a voyage in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives with his sole native companion Friday, for almost thirty years on a desert island before being rescued. For junior high (7-9) and high (10-12) school students.
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[2016]
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The first and only young adult book about Ada Blackjack and her remarkable, true-life survival story In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition--an attempt to claim the remote, uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. With the men was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as a cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son, left at home. Conditions soon turned dire...
16) Daniel Defoe
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Pub. Date
©1987
Description
Bibliography: p. 146-151. Places Defoe's works in the context of his life and times in an effort to provide the historical background necessary to a complete understanding of his oeuvre.
18) Robinson Crusoe
Pub. Date
[2001], c1997
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In this adaptation of the timeless novel by Daniel Defoe, shipwreck survivor Robinson Crusoe risks his life to save a doomed local tribesman from certain death. Both men--each stranded and unable to return home--must cross an immense cultural divide to forge a friendship and survive against impossible odds.
19) Robinson Crusoe
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In this adaptation of the timeless novel by Daniel Defoe, shipwreck survivor Robinson Crusoe risks his life to save a doomed local tribesman from certain death. Both men--each stranded and unable to return home--must cross an immense cultural divide to forge a friendship and survive against impossible odds.
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Pub. Date
c1988
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Estes Park was hardly more than a post office in 1899, when young Joe Mills first saw Colorado's Front Range. A would-be Robinson Crusoe, Joe scaled peaks, watched wild animals, hunted and trapped, and generally roughed it in the region that would become Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915.A Mountain Boyhood, the true story of his adventures there, is as rich in human as in natural history. Joe meets a colorful bunch of early settlers, living for...
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