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2) Deathwatch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
3) Wild bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right. The Wren who arrives in the Utah...
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
8) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
10) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
Author
Series
Expeditioners volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the world teeters on the edge of war, Explorer-in-Training Kit West finishes his spy training and is sent on his first secret mission: a dangerous journey across the Simerian Desert to retrieve a secret map that will allow his government to fend off an invasion. But things are not as they seem and Kit must battle deadly sandstorms, ruthless spies, and government agents to find the map and stay on the trail of his father, the famous Explorer Alexander...
12) Odd Thomas
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Series
Language
English
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"The dead don't talk. I don't know why". But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Bajo un árbol de acacia, directamente al lado del esqueleto de un dromedario, un muchacho llamó Kinti encuentra una bolsa de cuero que contiene un tirador, una copia del Corán, y un libro de poesía en un idioma extranjero. Como él crece, él aprende el poder de palabras y es determinado para pasar los regalos que él recibió.
Under an acacia tree, right next to the skeleton of a dromedary, a boy named Kinti finds a leather bag containing a...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted--in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey...
16) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
17) Desert adventure
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The five curious dinosaurs, known as the Fivedinos, decide to explore a desert, but when they run into a giant spider and are chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex, they turn around only to be confused by a series of mirages.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sophie loves activity camp ... but is terrified of insects. It's so bad that she won't go into the tent on her own, just in case something flies at her, or she steps on a creepie-crawlie. But when she's given a compass by one of the other boys on the campsite, Sophie is magically transported to the desert on an adventure where they're impossible to avoid! With the help of survival expert Bear Grylls as her guide, she will learn how to withstand the...
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