Adventure & Survival
Fiction
| Nonfiction
FICTION
The following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved by
the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR .
Allende, Isabel and Peden,
Margaret Sayers. City of the beasts. [2002].
When
fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother
on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he xperiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he
tries to avert
disaster for the Indians.
_____.
Kingdom
of the Golden Dragon. [2004].
Sixteen-year-old
Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography
magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas
to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy
outsider.
_____.
Forest of the Pygmies. [2005].
Eighteen-year-old
Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa
on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and
slaver.
Almond,
David. Heaven Eyes.
Having escaped
from their orphanage on a raft, Erin,
January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and
factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed
fingers and little memory of her past.
Anderson,
Laurie Halse. Fever
1793. [2000].
In
1793 Philadelphia,
sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about
perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of
a yellow fever epidemic.
Armstrong,
Jennifer. The kiln.
V. 1 of Fire-Us
trilogy. After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a
band of children travels in search of an explanation for the dark mystery
that forms the heart of their existence.
___________. The
keepers of the flame.
V. 2
Fire-Us trilogy. After a virus destroys most of the world's adult
population, a group of children discover a colony of adult survivors but soon
find that they are not as friendly as they appear.
___________. The
kindling.
V. 3 of Fire-Us
trilogy. In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a
Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults
have been killed off by a catastrophic virus.
Banks, Lynne Reid. The dungeon.
Driven by his
grief over the loss of his family and by his longing for adventure, Bruce
MacLennan sets out from Scotland for China,
where he buys a young girl, who tries to ease his pain but instead is caught
up in his desire for vengeance.
Bone,
Ian. The song of an innocent bystander. [2004].
With
the approach of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a
fast food restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman
struggles to make sense of her memories of the event and how they have shaped
her life.
Bright,
J.E. Follow your heart: your best friend's boyfriend. [2006].
Note:
In the genre of the Choose Your Own Adventure theme, you share an instant connection
with Mike, your best friend's boyfriend. Should you go for it and risk losing
not only Mike, but your best friend?
Brooks, Bill. Law for hire : protecting Hickok.
In this first
blazing installment in an all-new western adventure series, novice Pinkerton
private detective Teddy Blue must protect legendary pistoleer
Wild Bill Hickok.
Cadnum, Michael. Daughter of the wind : a novel.
In medieval
times as various groups of Vikings fight for supremacy of the northern lands
and waters, Hallgerd, Gauk,
and Hego, three young people from the quiet coastal
village of Spjothof,
find their fates intertwined as a series of events take them into danger far
from home.
Campbell, Eric. PLACE OF LIONS.
When the plane
flying Chris and his father crashes on the Serengeti Plain, Chris sets out to find
help and finds that his journey is paralleled by that of an aging lion.
Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen
of the road. [2007].
The
rootless lives of Zelikman, an itinerant physician,
and his comrade and fellow conman Amram, gain focus
when they are dragooned in 950 A.D. into service as escorts and defenders to
a stubborn and unlikable young royal whose uncle has usurped the throne.
Chalker, Dennis C and Dockery, Kevin. The
home team: hostile borders. [2005].
In
the hellish chaos of Bosnia,
U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Ted "Grim" Reaper disobeyed a direct order
from a corrupt superior officer, hoping to prevent a massacre -- and he paid
with his career. Forced to retire or face court martial, he left the military
life. But now his war has come home.
Christie,
Amanda. Sisters through the seasons.
Lucy and Mary
are testing their survival skills -- in New York City.
A Christmas shopping sounds harmless enough, but it's easy to find trouble if
you go looking for it.
Cindrich, Lisa. In the shadow of the Pali :
a story of the Hawaiian leper colony.
In the late
19th century, 12 year old Liliha is sent to the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony at Molokai, Hawaii, where she
struggles to endure savage living conditions and people, as well as her own
disease.
Click. [2007]
Stories
within a story, written as separate chapters by ten juvenile authors
including Linda Sue Park, Eoin Colfer,
and Tim Wynne-Jones, reveal the adventurous life and legacy of George
"Gee" Keane, a photojournalist and world traveler.
Cole,
Brock. GOATS.
Stripped and
marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and girl form an
uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away
and disappear without a trace.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis
Fowl : the eternity code.
After Artemis
uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is
snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the
fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
Collins,
Suzanne. Hunger games. [2008]
In
a future North America, where the rulers of Panem
maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting
young people from each of the twelve districts against one another,
sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the
test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Collison, Linda. Star-crossed.
[2008]
Having
been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim
her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to
survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man
when necessary. Includes glossary of nautical terms.
Cornwell,
Autumn. Carpe diem. 2007]
Sixteen-year-old
Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are
derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a
novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
Dickinson,
Peter. The kin.
When cut off
from their kin and lost in the desert 200,000 years ago, Suth
and five other orphans struggle to survive.
Fama, Elizabeth. Overboard.
[2005]
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.
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust.
[2000]
Young
Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely
but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out
into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to
his beloved.
Gardner,
Sally. The red necklace: a story of the French Revolution [2007]
In
the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the
twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann,
a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a
common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
Garrison,
Paul. Buried at sea.
A young man's
quest for adventure on the high seas turns into a desperate fight for
survival.
George, Jean Craighead. JULIE OF THE WOLVES.
While running
away from home and an unwanted marriate, a 13 year
old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended
by a wolf pack.
Goodman, Alison. Singing the Dogstar
blues.
In a future Australia,
the saucy eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous newscaster and a sperm donor
teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet Choria
in a time travel adventure that may significantly change both of their lives.
Grant, Alan and Kane, Bob. Batman : the
stone king.
Something has
been unearthed in Gotham City,
something that should not have been distrubed.
An ancient pyramid has unleashed supernatural energies throughout the
world. Drawn to the eye of this arcane storm, the heroes of the JLA
become caught in the grip of a force far beyond their extraordinary
powers. Only Batman manages to escape-- but to free his allies and stop
the chaos that is fast engulding the world, the
Dark Knight must somehow unlock the pyramid's secret curse.
Green,
John. Paper towns. [2008].
One
month before graduating from his Central Florida
high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness
of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman,
Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then
mysteriously disappears.
Guest,
Jacqueline. Lighting rider.
Sixteen-year-old
January Fournier embarks on a quest to prove her brother's innocence when he
is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident while riding a stolen bike.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Hear the
wind blow. [2003]
With their mother dead and their home burned, a
thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the
final days of the Civil War.
Higgins,
Jack and Richards, Justin. Sure fire [2007]
Resentful
of having to go and live with their estranged father after the death of their
mother, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more
complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to
rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the
world's oil.
______.
Death run. [2008, 2007].
A
mafia banker with access to a large number of criminal accounts is willing to
give evidence in exchange for help retiring from the mob, but when spy John
Chase assists him, he puts his fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, in the
line of fire.
Higson, Charles and Fleming, Ian. SilverFin: a James
Bond adventure. [2005]
This
prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young
James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become
involved in his first adventure.
_____.
Double
or die : a James Bond adventure [2007]
Teenage
James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London
cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James
with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the
world.
Hobbs,
Will. Down the Yukon
Sequel to:
Jason's gold. In the wake of Dawson
City's
Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the
Yukon River across Alaska
in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the
new gold fields at Cape Nome.
__________. DOWNRIVER.
15 year old
Jesse and other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival team,
abandon their adult leader, steal his van and rafts, and run the dangerous
white waters of the Grand Canyon.
___________.
RIVER THUNDER.
Five kids
survive a rafting adventure on Arizona's
Colorado River.
Companion to: Downriver.
___________. Wild
Man
Island.
After 14 year
old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of
his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admirality
Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and
human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric
immigrants to America.
Horowitz, Anthony. Skeleton key.
Reluctant
teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught
up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his
Russian host, General Sarov.
________. Point blank.
Fourteen-year-old
Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an
exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
________. Eagle Strike. [2004].
After
a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex
Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray
whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One,
nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
________.
Scorpia
[2005]
After
being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization,
fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes
involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
________.
Stormbreaker: an Alex Rider adventure
[2006].
After
the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex
Rider is coerced into continuing his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's
intelligence agency, MI6.
________.
Snakehead.
[2007].
While
working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged
spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Houston, James
A. FROZEN FIRE.
Determined to
find his father who has become lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo
friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals and wild men during their
search in the Canadian Arctic.
Humphreys,
Chris. The fetch. [2007].
After
he and his cousin Kristin discover a sea chest full of runes and a journal
belonging to their deceased Norwegian grandfather, fifteen-year-old Sky summons the
old man's ghost, who teaches him how to use the power of the runestones to travel
through time and space.
______.
Vendetta. [2007].
After
realizing the enormity of his Norwegian grandfather's betrayal, fifteen-year-old
Sky leaves England to follow
his visions to Corsica, the homeland of his
other ancestors, hoping to find some ways to defeat his grandfather's powers
and restore his cousin Kristin's free will.
Hussey,
Charmian and Crump, Christopher. The valley of secrets. [2005].
When
strange events occur in his newly inherited manor house in Cornwall,
England, Stephen, a
teenager who was abandoned at birth, investigates the mystery and his family
history using clues found in a travel journal kept by his great uncle Theo
during his trip to the Amazon River region.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Freaks: alive, on the inside [2006].
After
leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen -year-old
Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious
spirit.
Klass, David. Whirlwind.
[2008].
Jack
finds himself embroiled in another dangerous adventure when, after a
six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River town where he grew up to find
his girlfriend PJ only to discover that she is missing and everyone believes
him to be responsible for her disappearance and the death of his family.
Lawrence,
Iain. THE WRECKERS.
Shipwrecked
after a vicious storm, 14-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.
Lewis,
Richard. The killing sea. [2007].
In
the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra,
two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland,
where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah
seeks a doctor for her brother.
Luceno, James. Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal
skull. [2008].
Daring
adventurer-archaeologist Indiana Jones returns in an all new, action-packed
saga, in the novelization of the fourth,
long-anticipated Indiana Jones movie.
Ludlum,
Robert. The Bourne identity. [2001]
_____.
The
Bourne ultimatum. [1991, 1990].
_____.
The
Bourne supremacy. [2004, 1986].
Super-diplomat
Raymond Havilland sets up the kidnapping of Jason Bourne's wife, in order to
draw Bourne out of retirement and into a Taiwanese plot to seize Hong Kong
and incite China
against the West.
Marsden, John. TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR
BEGAN.
Seven
Australian teens return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that
their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
______ . THE DEAD OF NIGHT.
Sequel
to: Tomorrow, when the war began. Sic determined
Australian teens try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist
the enemies who have invaded their country.
______ . A KILLING FROST.
Sequel
to: Dead of night. Ellie and her friends, a small band of
teens trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the
enemies who have invaded their country.
______ . DARKNESS, BE MY FRIEND.
Sequel
to: A Killing frost. As survivors of an enemy invasion of
their country, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for
soldiers from New Zealand
who plan an attack on the Wirrawee
airfield.
______. The other side of dawn.
Ellie and her
friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their
country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand
troops.
______. The night is for hunting.
While trying to
care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers
continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy
invading their homeland.
Mason, A.E.W. The four feathers.
The haunting
story of a soldier who redeems four white feathers sent to him for
cowardice. This stirring adventure set in the Sudan.
Mazer, Harry. ISLAND KEEPER.
Longing to
disappear after the death of her younger sister, 16 year old Cleo runs away
from an overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island
where she is the only human inhabitant.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The
white darkness: a novel. [2007]
Taken
to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as 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.
McCarthy,
Cormac. The road. [2006]
Traces
the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has
consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
McKernan, Victoria. Shackleton's
stowaway. [2005]
A
fictionalized account of the adventures of 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
the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return
journey across sea and ice.
McMurtry, Larry. Sin killer
: a novel.
Beautiful,
determined Tasmin Berrybender,
daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic Englishman who has brought his family to
America in 1830 on an adventure of exploration in the just-opening West,
meets and falls in love with frontiersman Jim Snow, an Indian-fighter and
part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer."
Mikaelsen, Ben. Red midnight.
After soldiers
kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago
and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and
try to reach the United States.
Miklowitz, Gloria D. AFTER THE BOMB.
After an
accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family
through a heavily militarized and devasted Los Angeles.
Monninger, Joseph. Hippie
chick. [2008].
After
her sailboat capsizes, fifteen-year-old Lolly Emmerson is rescued by manatees and taken to a mangrove
key in the Everglades, where she forms a bond
with her aquatic companions while struggling to survive.
Moodie, Craig. Seaborn : a novel. [2008].
Craving
"the Big Freedom," sixteen-year-old Luke resents being cooped up
with his father on a small sailboat just after his mother walked out on them,
but a sudden storm sweeps his father overboard, leaving Luke to figure out
how to survive on a damaged boat in the Gulf Stream
while dealing with his feelings of guilt.
Mussi, Sarah. The
door of no return. [2008].
Zac Baxter travels to Africa after his grandfather
is brutally murdered, hoping to learn the truth about his family's dark past
and discover why someone was willing to kill his grandfather to learn the
family secret.
O'Brien,
Robert. Z FOR ZACHARIAH.
Ann Burden is
16 and as far ash she knows the only person left in the world. Nuclear
war has destroyed the rest. For over a year she has survived by herself
until John Loomis appears.
O'Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS.
Left alone on a
beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California,
a young Indian girl spends 18 years, not only merely surviving through her
enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness
in her solitary life. A classic!
Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi.
Zahrah the Windseeker. [2008].
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl,
undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny
Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a
snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
Patterson,
James. Maximum Ride: the angel experiment [2005].
After
the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic
experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand
their own origins and purpose.
______.
School’s
out - forever. [2006].
After
a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and
live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida
and Max’s ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or
not.
______.
Saving
the world and other extreme sports [2007].
The
time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman,
and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to
save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a
scientifically superior master race.
______.
The
final warning : a Maximum Ride novel
[2008].
While
on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming,
fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of
genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the
highest bidder.
_____.
Max : a Maximum
Ride novel. [2009].
When
millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is
destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically
modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster
before it is too late.
Paulsen,
Gary. HATCHET.
When his plane
crashes in the Canadian wildnerness, 13 year old
Brian is the sole survivor. Left with only his clothes and a hatchet,
Brian must find his way home. But first, he must learn to survive!
_______ . BRIAN'S RETURN.
Prequal: River. After
having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer
live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
_______ . BRIAN'S WINTER.
What if Brian
hadn't been rescued, and had to survive the brutal Canadian winter
alone? Find out in this riveting story!
_______ . RIVER.
Sequal to: Hatchet. Because
of his success surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness for fifty-four
days, 15 year old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked
to undergo a similar experience to hlep scientists
learn more about the psychology of survival.
_______ . VOYAGE OF THE FROG.
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 as
he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. The nautical chart.
Merchant Marine
officer Manuel Coy, suspended following an accident at sea, is caught up in a
dangerous adventure when he meets Madrid Naval Museum
representative Tanger Soto at an auction and signs
on with her to search for the "Dei Gloria," a Jesuit ship sunk by
pirates in the seventeenth century rumored to be carrying a wealth of riches.
Pfeffer,
Susan Beth. Life as we knew it [2006]
Through
journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to
survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis,
earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
_______. The
dead and the gone. [2008]
After
a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes,
seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the
chaos of New York City.
Pratchett, Terry. Nation.
[2008].
A
tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic
English girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their
village and their lives.
Preston, Douglas J and Child,
Lincoln. The Ice limit. [2000].
Pressler, Mirjam and
Murdoch, Brian. Malka. [2003].
In
the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a
dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary
while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to
leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
Qualey, Marsha. One night.
Nineteen-year-old
Kelly, ex-addict niece of a nationally-renowned Minnesota
talk show host, has an unexpected adventure with the visiting prince of a
war-torn Eastern European country.
Rees, Celia. Pirates! : the true and
remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington,
female pirates.
At the dawn of
the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva
Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica
on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.
Sebestyen, Ouida. GIRL IN THE BOX.
Kidnapped and
left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and
limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing
messages and sending them through a slit in the door.
Sedgwick,
Marcus. The Dark Horse. [2003].
Having
risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn,
sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to
resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking
discovery about his foster sister Mouse.
Shahan, Sherry. Death mountain. [2005].
While
traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin
and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra
Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. [2007].
Three
teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society
that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
Stephens,
J. B. The Big Empty. [2004].
After
half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a
better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying
to avoid the Slashers.
___________.
Paradise
City. [2004].
Having
survived the Strain 7 virus that killed much of the human race, sixteenagers settle in Novo Mundum,
a hidden city where people are reviving science and the arts, and search for
a traitor who threatens to betray their community.
_________.
Desolation Angels. [2004].
After
learning that the head of their community of Novo Mundum
wants them killed, five teenagers escape into the Big Empty - a lawless space
left desolate after a virus destroyed much of the human race.
__________.
No exit [2005].
New
revelations about the virus that began it all--Strain 7--come from a shocking
source, as the countdown to a final confrontation begins.
Ullman, James Ramsey. BANNER IN THE
SKY.
16-year old
Rudi dreams of being the first to climb the highest mountain in Switzerland,
especially since his father tried, and failed.
Weaver, Will. Memory boy : a novel.
Sixteen-year-old
Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis
home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic
volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Westerfeld, Scott. So
yesterday: a novel. [2004].
Hunter
Braque, a New York City
teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool,"
combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find
a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer
culture.
Whelan,
Gloria. Burying the sun. [2004].
In
Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old
Georgi vows to help his family and his city during
the terrible siege.
White,
Andrea. Surviving Antarctica: reality TV
2083. [2006].
In
the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the
opportunity to continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition
to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided
by a Department of Entertainment employee.
Wooding,
Chris. Storm thief. [2006].
With
the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos,
where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the
inhabitants.
Yancey,
Richard. The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp.
[2005].
Through
a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur
from the forces of evil.
NONFICTION
363.34
PIC
Picciotto, Richard and Paisner,
Daniel. Last man down
: a firefighter's story of survival and escape from the World Trade
Center. [2002].
Richard
Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to
survive the collapse of the World Trade Center,
provides an account of his activities and those of his fellow firefighters on
September 11, 2001, when he and his team put their own lives on the line to
help evacuate the North
Tower, working until the
building collapsed around them.
613.6
STO
Storm,
Rory. Castaway survivor's guide
[2001].
Shows
readers how to survive if they are unexpectedly cut off from civilization.
614.5
SAL
Salisbury, Gay and Salisbury, Laney. The cruelest miles :
the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic
[2003].
The
story of the 1925 Nome, Alaska, diphtheria epidemic describes the
plight of the patients, with a blizzard imminent and the much-needed serum seven
hundred miles away, as teams of sled dogs and their drivers become the only
hope for survival.
910
PHI
Philbrick, Nat. Revenge of the whale: the true story of the whaleship
Essex. [2002].
Recounts
the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew
of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult
book "In the Heart of the Sea."
910.45
SHA
Sharp,
Anne Wallace. Daring pirate women
[2002].
Profiles
pirates throughout history, especially women pirates of Europe, America, and Asia,
such as Princess Alvilda, Ingean
Ruadh, Grany Imallye, Elizabeth Killigrew,
Anne Bonny, and Lai Cho San.
919.8
MYE
Myers,
Walter Dean. Antarctica : journeys to the South Pole. [2004].
Walter Dean Myers presents a thrilling record of Antarctica and the expedition parties that have
uncovered the frozen
continent throughout history. Walter Dean Myers brings the dramatic race to the South Pole to life
in Antarctica, tracking the explorers of the South Pole - including James
Cook, Ernest Shackleton, and Richard Evelyn Bird - and the dangers they
encountered there, as well as their contributions to science. The heroism
and adventure - and sometimes the
ultimate failure - of the expeditions are depicted in Myers's
powerful prose, and through the photos, maps, and illustrations that
complement the text.
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