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FIC BOD S.A. Bodeen The Compound Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of six years.

FIC BOD S.A. Bodeen The Raft Experienced traveler, Robi, having decided to take a cargo plane from Honolulu to Midway Atoll after a visit with her aunt, struggles to survive with the co-pilot, Max after the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean.

FIC BOD S.A. Bodeen Shipwreck Island When her father remarries, Sarah Robinson gets a new stepmom and two stepbrothers, and when the new family takes a vacation to get to know each other by sailing for a few days near Fiji things go horribly wrong.

FIC COO Caroline B Code Orange While conducting research for a school paper on Cooney smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.

FIC COO Caroline B. Flight #116 Is Down Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a Cooney plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever.

FIC CON Leslie Connor Waiting for Normal Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

FIC DEF Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe The solitary survivor on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe gradually creates a life for himself, building a house and cultivating the land, and making a

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 companion of the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature.

FIC DUC Joe Ducie The Rig Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake.

FIC DUN Lois Duncan Don´t Look Behind You Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

FIC FAM Elizabeth Fama Overboard Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.

FIC GEM Dan The Honest Truth A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, Gemeinhart conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and

only anger at his situation to drive him on, nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.

FIC GEO Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain A young boy relates his adventures during the year George 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.

FIC GRA Alan Gratz Refugee "Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and

Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together"

FIC GRI Paul Griffin Adrift A series of impulsive decisions and a surprise storm leaves five teens lost at sea, with few means of survival. As days pass, they hope for rescue - and tensions quickly mount.

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 FIC HAD Margaret Don’t You Dare Read This In the journal she is keeping for English class, Peterson Mrs. Dunphrey sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her Haddix brother, and her mother follows him.

FIC HOB Will Hobbs Crossing the Wire Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the to support his family in central Mexico.

FIC HOB Will Hobbs Leaving Protection Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a trawler fishing for king salmon off southeastern , finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.

FIC JOH Terry Lynn Ice Dogs In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Johnson Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.

FIC LEE Stacey Lee Outrun the Moon On the eve of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong - daughter of Chinese immigrants - is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive.

FIC LON Jack London The Call of the Wild The dog hero, Buck, is stolen from his home and pressed into service as a sledge dog in the Klondike.

FIC MAR Yann Martel Life of Pi Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

FIC MAZ Harry Mazer Snowbound Two teenagers caught in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in a desolate area.

FIC MCC Geraldine The White Darkness Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as McCaughrean her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

FIC MCK Victoria Shackleton’s Stowaway A fictionalized account of the adventures of McKernan eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.

FIC MIK Ben Mikaelsen Touching Spirit Bear After beating a classmate, a fifteen-year-old boy from an abusive home is banished to a remote Alaskan island as part of a Native American sentencing alternative, where he is mauled by a legendary white bear and, while struggling to survive, begins to find humility and take responsibility for his actions.

FIC MON Joseph Breakdown When a bus carrying a group of kids home from Monninger summer camp breaks down on an abandoned road during a heatwave, the group must survive the elements and find help that is over sixty miles away.

FIC OBR Anne O’Brien In the Shadow of the Sun A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure.

FIC PAU Gary Paulsen Brian’s Winter Fans of Hatchet will love book two! 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.

FIC PAU Gary Paulsen The River Hatchet story continues in book three! Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, 15-year- old Brian is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.

FIC PAU Gary Paulsen Brian’s Return Last title in the Hatchet series! After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

FIC PHI Rodman The Big Dark When something knocks out everything electrical at Philbrick midnight on New Year's Eve, the world is plunged into chaos, including the town of Harmony, , where Webster Bragg, a vicious survivalist, sees an opportunity to dominate his fellow citizens--but as the town struggles to maintain order and civilization, young Charlie Cobb sets out on a dangerous journey through the snow to find medicine for his diabetic mother.

FIC PHI Rodman Zane and the Hurricane: A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped Philbrick A Story of Katrina in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 FIC PHL Marjorie Pilot Down, Presumed Dead A young pilot who crash lands on an island off Baja Phleger uses his ingenuity to survive.

FIC PRA Terry Nation A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an Pratchett island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their lives.

FIC RHO Jewell Ninth Ward In New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Rhodes Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

FIC SCH Eliot Schrefer Endangered A girl, having travelled with her mother to an animal sanctuary for bonobos in the Congo, struggles to survive with the animals after revolution breaks out and she and the chimpanzees are forced to flee into the jungle.

FIC SCH Eliot Schrefer Threatened Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

FIC SLO Holly Goldberg I’ll Be There Raised by an unstable father, Sam has long been Sloan the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.

FIC SMI Roland Smith Beneath Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C. Now, a year later, he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother, which will lead Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York.

FIC SMI Roland Smith Peak A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of ..

FIC SMI Roland Smith Eruption Chase, heading south of the border with Nicole Rossi, faces a threat to his survival while searching ​ ​ for the Rossi Brothers' Circus after an earthquake in Mexico.

FIC SMI Roland Smith Storm Runners Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.

FIC SMI Dan Smith Big Game In a remote mountain village every boy who turns thirteen must face a ritual hunt known as the Trial. Oskari, who cannot stand to be alone in a forest and whose ceremonial bow is too big for him, sets out on his hunt and sees an eerie blue light that he thinks is an alien, but realizes it is the President of the United States, whose plane was sabotaged and crashed and is running for his life.

FIC SPE Elizabeth The Sign of the Beaver Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in George Speare eighteenth-century , a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

PIC STR Jeff Strand I Have a Bad Feeling Everything unathletic sixteen-year-old Henry was About This dreading about survival camp turns out to be true--or even worse--when armed killers arrive and survival takes on a whole new meaning for the campers.

FIC SUL Tara Sullivan Golden Boy A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin.

FIC TAY Theodore Ice Drift In 1863, two young Inuits, fourteen-year-old Alika Taylor and his younger brother Sulu, must fend for themselves during the six months they are stranded on an ice floe drifting south from Ellesmere Island towards the Greenland Strait.

FIC VOI Cynthia Voigt Homecoming Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

FIC WHE Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird Thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage and must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's customs or find the courage to oppose tradition.

FIC WHI Robb White Deathwatch Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.

FIC WUL Don Wulffson Soldier X In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front. In a turn of events, he crosses into enemy lines and struggles to survive undercover.

FIC WYS Johann Wyss Swiss Family Robinson Shipwrecked on an isolated island in the early nineteenth century, a Swiss couple and their four sons rely upon their ingenuity and nature's providence to survive in their "New Switzerland.".

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 FIC YOL Jane Yolen Girl in a Cage As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, PB eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.

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B Kaz Abbas On Two Feet and Wings: one Recounts the author's real life experiences fleeing Kazerooni boy´s amazing story of Iran as a young boy during the Iran-Iraq war, and making his way on his own in the unfamiliar city of survival Istanbul in hopes of attaining a visa in England.

B Ley Leon Leyson The Boy on the Wooden Box : Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, how the impossible became being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar possible-- on Schindler's list : Schindler. a memoir

B Yous Malala Yousafzai I am Malala : How one girl Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for ​ ​ ​ ​ stood up for education and education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an changed the world / Young education, and how the Taliban retaliated against Readers Edition her by trying to kill her.

B Rome Jordan Romero No Summit Out of Sight: the The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 true story of the youngest became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the person to climb the of the world's 7 highest mountains summits

B Zampe Laura Unbroken: an Olympianś A biography of Olympic runner and World War II Hillenbrand journey from airman to bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track castaway to captive and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.

362.1 FLE John Phineas Gage : A gruesome Tells the story of Phineas Gage, a railroad Fleischman but true story about brain construction foreman who survived eleven years years after an accident in which a thirteen-pound science iron rod shot through his brain.

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 796.52 Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air The author relates his experience of climbing Mount KRA Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

910.4 ARM Jennifer Shipwreck at the bottom of Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Armstrong the world: the extraordinary Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, true story of Shackleton and was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men the Endurance to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

901.4 SAN Martin W. The Impossible Rescue: the To save hundreds of whalers trapped by ice floes, Sandler true story of an amazing three men attempted the impossible--trekking 1,500 miles through the Alaskan wilderness, in winter. arctic adventure Author Martin W. Sandler takes us on every step of their riveting journey, facing blizzards, killing cold, injured sled dogs, and setbacks to test the strongest of wills.

910 TOU Michael J. The Finest Hour Tells the true story of the heroic rescue at sea by the PB Tougias and U.S. Coast Guard off Cape Cod during the winter of 1952 when two oil tankers split in two during a storm. Casey Sherman

910.9 MAA Peter Mass The Terrible Hours: The man Offers a detailed account of U.S. Navy officer Charles PB behind the greatest "Swede" Momsen's attempts to save thirty-three men who were trapped in a sunken submarine during the submarine rescue in history first days of World War II.

910.9 SEI Samantha Death on the River of Doubt: In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Rio Seiple Theodore Roosevelt´s de Janeiro, Brazil, on a tour of South America. The thrill-seeking adventurer had no idea that he would Amazon Adventure soon receive an offer he couldn't refuse: the chance to lead an expedition deep into the Amazon jungle to chart an unmapped river with his son Kermit and renowned Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. 'Death on the River of Doubt' takes readers inside the thrilling journey that unfolds as Roosevelt, Rondon, Kermit, and their companions navigate an unpredictable river through an unforgiving jungle to make it out alive.

940.52 Robert Donovan PT-109: John F. Kennedy in A fortieth-anniversary edition of the 1961 account DON World War II of the sinking of American PT 109 by a Japanese destroyer on August 2, 1943, and the subsequent rescue of the crew through the efforts of young Lt. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who went on the serve as U.S. president.

940.54 SEI Samantha Ghosts in the Fog A narrative, nonfiction account of the Japanese Seiple invasion and occupation of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, told from the perspectives of an American civilian and soldiers from both sides

Saxe Learning Resources May 2018 of the conflict. Includes more than eighty photographs.

940.54 OLS Tod Olsen Lost in the Pacific, 1942 World War II, October 1942: a plane carrying eight Americans crashes into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With only four oranges and no fresh water between them, the crew had to band together and rely on each other for survival. What they thought would be only a few hours or days before they were rescued turned into weeks lost at sea fighting off sharks, dehydration, hunger, and extreme heat

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