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2022.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's menu. So they've had to come up with lots of cunning ways to avoid being eaten. From camouflage and color-changing, natural armor, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back, the range of survival tactics in the natural world is quite astonishing (and sometimes pretty disgusting). How Not To Get Eaten is a fun introduction...
24) Brian's winter
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 3
Language
English
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable tragedy strikes, the pair find themselves stranded in Utah's most remote wilderness in the dead of winter, badly injured and miles from civilization. Without food or shelter, and only Ben's...
27) Day 21
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, the hundred struggle to survive the only way they can--together, as secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested"--
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, then vanished into thin air. Sixteen of the 45 passenger resurfaced, 72 days after their plane crashed. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to tell their story in their own words.
29) Volcano Blast
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Thinking they are in for a boring Alaskan vacation, Noah and Emma Burton find themselves dodging lava and running for their lives when a formerly dormant volcano erupts.
30) Mission atomic
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Doublecross volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Cahill family member from the past is out for revenge in this thrilling conclusion to the Doublecross series.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. This is a fast-paced, uplifting story that...
32) Adrift
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English
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Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you were stranded or trapped in a situation where you had to fight for your life? "When the Worst Happens" is a collection of intense, true stories set in distant corners of the earth. These action-packed accounts reveal the critical decisions that determined the fate of each victim.
34) Eve
Author
Series
Eve trilogy (Anna Carey) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
In 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth's population, Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, and she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.
35) Ashfall
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
38) Brian's return
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 4
Language
English
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Description
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.
39) Survive
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Two ordinary people, Jane and Paul, are the only survivors of a plane crash that isolates them on a remote snow-covered mountain. Soon this unlikely duo will have to find a way to get back to society, all while Jane struggles with her demons and Paul does everything he can to keep her safe.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen...
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