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1) Getting air
Author
Language
English
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Description
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
2) 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"--
3) The river
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 2
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists...
4) Hatchet
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 1
Language
English
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MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
If You Like I Survived, Read These!
If You Like Warriors, Read These!
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
5) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Survival is a concept these high school students never had to consider until their plane crashes in a remote rainforest with no adults left alive. With many of them falling prey to threats from both the jungle and man, they soon realize that danger comes in many sinister forms.
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After repairing a school bus, the group of survivors split in two, with one group heading to the airport in hopes of reuniting with their parents and saving their dying friend and the other trying to rebuild the community they lost.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
With the zombie antidote in hand, Zack Clarke and his team of zombie chasers embark on a wild cross-country road trip to end the undead apocalypse once and for all.
10) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
11) Lost
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked with her family on a remote island, Sarah Robinson learns about the existence of a mysterious Keeper right before her father and younger brother go missing.
12) Blackbird
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions. Growing weaker by the day, nine-year-old Jake looks back on the time before he was sick, imagining life as if he were well again. And, forever desperate to prove his worth to his arrogant brother and distant father, Toby chases victory at an arcade game with horrifying consequences. But in the unpredictable world of Five Nights at Freddy's, sometimes...
13) Defy me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Still reeling from the explosive events of the Continental Symposium and the secrets Warner has been keeping, Juliette has nowhere to turn and doesn't know who she can trust. She's desperate for answers, but to get them, she'll have to face the nightmares that have been chasing her for a lifetime.
14) Robinson Crusoe
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Language
English
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Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To get the answers he seeks about his powerful Cosmic Hand, which might be able to stop the inevitable from happening, Jack must travel farther than he’s ever been--he must go to the monster dimension.
16) A warp in time
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift. There are other kids, too... The seven-book mega-series begun by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies) reaches a pivotal turning point as only New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jude Watson could deliver! Bonus: Play the action-packed HORIZON game for free on your browser,...
17) Monument 14
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world--as they know it--apart."--
18) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
19) Red moon rising
Author
Series
Survivors (Erin Hunter). Gathering darkness volume 4
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 4
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 4
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 4
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Wild Pack is in high spirits after rescuing Alpha and Beta's pups. Only Storm believes that danger still walks among them-and it won't be long before the traitor dog strikes again. She must convince her Packmates to stand together against the most malicious and elusive enemy they have ever known...before terror and doubt tear them apart.
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack Clarke, his best friend Rice, and his older sister's mean friend Madison Miller team up to try to defeat the undead, or at least survive one another.
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