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Survival!
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When he offends the toughest gang
in his San Francisco school, Danny tries to elude them
by going to Alcatraz, only to find himself and a Park
Service employee trapped by the gang in an old prison
cell block.
After a surprise attack leaves
many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone,
an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to
survive and rejoin the refugee band.
Daniel is forced to go on a school
trip into the wilderness by his father, who insists
it will do him good. As the story opens, he and his
enemy, Tozer, fall into an underground cavern with no
seeming way out. Worse yet, the boys soon realize that
while orienteering they have been purposely tricked
into this cavern, with no one looking for them in the
right place.
Mana and the other Kin, a band
of people living in prehistoric times, search for food
on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy,
the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders
into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under
the protection of a badger.
Running away from a vicious trapper,
seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family
and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg,
where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
While journeying to Zimbabwe,
eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and
starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous
world of the African spirits.
This novel continues the story
of Julie and her wolves, in which Kapu must protect
his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under
his new leadership.
Sent by his father on a five-day
wilderness hike in the rugged New Zealand mountains,
Rob and five other less-experienced teenagers must go
it alone when their leader suddenly dies.
After the destruction of their
floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend,
Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness
of the Northwest Territories.
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm,
fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his
father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret
about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
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.
Longing to disappear after the
death of her beloved younger sister, 16-year-old Cleo
runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family
and goes to a remote island where she is the only human
inhabitant.
This story records the courage
and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone
for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California
coast.
Left alone after the deaths of
her father and brother who had take opposite sides in
the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British
who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape
a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Instead of being rescued from
a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet,
this story portrays what would have happened to Brian
had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness
with only his survival pack and hatchet.
While backpacking in the desert,
thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light
and is transported into a more primitive world, where
he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
When fifteen-year-old Francis
and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness
of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of
dangerous men.
When David goes out on his sailboat
to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the
wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive
many days on his own while working out his feelings
about life and his uncle.
Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, ninneteen-year-old
Amy, her fiance, and four friends battle a flashflood.
Cousins Cody and Derek take a
kayak trip in Alaska and find themselves battling the
raw elements of an untamed wilderness.
Vacationing on what they think
is an uninhabited island, fifteen-year-old Peg and her
father find their adventure turned into a fight for
survival.
Three teenagers attempt to survive
on their own when devastating plague hits London.
Josh tries to endure living in
the Alaskan wilderness with his father and half-brother
Nathan, but Nathan's uncompromising reverence for nature
and its wild creatures causes difficulties that reinforces
Josh's determination to return to city life.
Lost in the Ohio River Valley
in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers
struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture
by the Shawnee Indians.
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