Survival
In Books For Middle Schoolers
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| Author | Title |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Illyrian Adventure |
| On a visit to a remote European kingdom in 1872, a fearless sixteen-year-old orphan and her guardian become enmeshed in a dangerous rebellion. | |
| Avi | Beyond the Western Sea |
| Three young people leave their impoverished Irish village and escape to America in 1850. Their adventures fill two volumes. | |
| Bunting, Eve | The Hideout |
| A runaway finds the perfect hideout when he discovers the key to a luxurious hotel suite. But danger awaits! | |
| Clarke, Judith | Al Capsella Takes a Vacation |
| Al's surfing vacation plans go awry when he and his friend end up in the middle of nowhere instead of the party town they planned to visit with their parents. | |
| Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm |
| In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them. | |
| George, Jean Craighead | Frightful's Mountain |
| Frightful, the peregrine falcon featured in My Side of the Mountain and On the Far Side of the Mountain, must learn to live as a wild bird. | |
| Hobbs, Will | Far North |
| 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. | |
| Lawrence, Iain | The Wreckers |
| Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, a boy attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the town where they are stranded. | |
| Matas, Carol | After the War |
At the end of World War II, a girl risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine. |
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| Meyer, Carolyn | Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker |
Raised by Comanche Indians, Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives. Sad and lonely, she longs for her Indian life. |
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| Morey, Walt | Kavik the Wolf Dog |
A wolf-dog travels 2000 miles, from Washington to Alaska, to return to the boy who once saved his life. |
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| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet |
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian is alone in the wilderness, learning to survive with the aid of a hatchet. |
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| Pierce, Tamora | Wild Magic (The Immortals series) |
A mage, a knight, and a queen enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall. |
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| Pullman, Philip | Clockwork, or, All Wound Up |
A storyteller's tale and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius. |
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| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
Stanley's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when he is unjustly sent to a boy's juvenile detention camp in the Texas desert. |
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| Skurzynski, Gloria | The Virtual War |
In a future world three young people with genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality. |
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| Smith, Roland | Jaguar |
| While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve, Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters. | |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay |
A boy and an old man are stranded on a small island after the freighter on which they were traveling was torpedoed by a World War II German submarine. |
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| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming |
Abandoned by their mother in a parking lot, four children begin a search for a home and an identity. |
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Non-Fiction |
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| Call Number | Author | Title |
| J796.52 P481w | Pfetzer, Mark | Within Reach: My Everest Story |
The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains all over the world, with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest. |
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| J 919.89 Sh11a2 | Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance |
When their ship is crushed in a frozen sea for nine months, Shackleton and his men make a perilous journey to reach inhabited land. |
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| J 940.53 L783n | Lobel, Anita | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War |
A children's book illustrator of, describes her experiences as a Polish Jew in concentration camps during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards. |
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