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Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traveling across a barren landscape, Lernert digs through piles of rubbish in an attempt to build a body for his companion Susan, the unresponsive robot head who hangs from the back of his pack. The pair comes across Rola, a spirited young woman who lacks survival skills but makes up for the deficiency with sheer determination. This unlikely trio navigates the harsh desert in search of a mythical water basin that could replenish their depleted resources...
82) The snow walker
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
When a plane carrying Charlie Halliday and a sick, Inuit woman, Kanaalay, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While search parties try to locate the plane, Charlie decides to trek overland promising the woman he will return with help. Despite her sickness, she follows Charlie. Kanaalay teaches him the skills he will need in order to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and her spirit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival. Read their incredible stories: The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
85) Stones in water
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 32
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Rena Matthews feels called to take the gospel to the South Sea islanders. She gathers volunteers to go with her--all from the upper strata of society. When rough-looking Travis Winslow volunteers, Rena wants to refuse him, but her father insists she take him along. They set out in her father's yacht, but a storm drives them hundreds of miles off course and into a reef on a deserted island. Will they ever make it to the mission &supl;eld? Or...
Author
Series
Kensington chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The Hawk and the Jewel sweeps readers from the tapestried halls of Victorian England to the alabaster courts of Arabia.
Everyone thought little Sunny had perished with Lady Gallagher in storm-tossed seas off the Arabian coast, but the beautiful toddler had been found, taken to the palace of Darhabar, and raised as the ruler's own child. Now the emir, Ahmad Khan, is sending her home, and Sunny's uncertain, new life is completely in God's hands.
Mysterious...
90) A killing frost
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books ; MTV Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
94) Watership Down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language. In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies--...
Author
Series
I survived volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience...
100) Flying blind
Author
Series
Cooper kids adventure series volume 8
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the small plane which his uncle allows him to fly tumbles out of control, fourteen-year-old Jay relies on God's help to land the aircraft safely.
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