Fiction
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| Title: |
A Girl Named Disaster
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| Author: |
Nancy Farmer |
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Struggling to escape an arranged marriage and find her father in distant Zimbabwe, Nhamo faces hardships on the journey from Mozambique. She relies upon her own wit, help from dreams and messages from spirits. |
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Escape from Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Bryant
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| Author: |
Gerald and Loretta Hausman |
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Imprisoned for stealing a lady's bonnet, teenaged Mary is deported from England to a penal colony in Australia. She leads a daring quest for freedom, while facing the high seas in an open boat with other escapees. |
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| Title: |
Far North
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| Author: |
Will Hobbs |
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Disaster results when the pilot of a small plane veers from the reported flight path for a sightseeing detour. Two high school boys are left to face winter alone in the remote Canadian Northwest Territories. |
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| Title: |
Hatchet
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| Author: |
Gary Paulsen |
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After a plane crash, Brian is alone in the Canadian wilderness with no tools except his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet strapped to his belt. |
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| Title: |
Life as We Knew It
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| Author: |
Susan Beth Pfeffer |
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Worldwide natural disasters strike after a meteor hits the moon, knocking it closer to Earth. Miranda and her family face annihilation as broadcast media go dead, food stocks dwindle and winter approaches. |
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| Title: |
Overboard
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| Author: |
Elizabeth Fama |
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Her ferry boat sinks miles from land in Indonesian waters. Without a life vest, 14-year-old Emily fights to live and to save another life as well. |
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| Title: |
Shackleton's Stowaway
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| Author: |
Victoria McKernan |
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Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow was the youngest member of Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the Antarctic. He stowed away hoping for adventure, but also had to face the hardships of being trapped in polar ice, frostbite and starvation. |
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| Title: |
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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| Author: |
Stephen King |
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A young girl wanders from the trail while hiking with her mother and brother and gets lost in the New England wilderness. When night falls, she struggles to survive the elements, using her wits and listening to broadcasts of the Red Sox games on her Walkman. |
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| Title: |
The Killing Sea
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| Author: |
Richard Lewis |
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After the 2004 tsunami hits Sumatra, two teens from different cultures (American and Acehnese) form an unexpected alliance as they attempt to stay alive and find missing family members. |
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| Title: |
The Trap
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| Author: |
John Smelcer |
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Seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel worries when his grandfather doesn't return from checking trap lines in the Alaskan winter. Johnny doesn't know the man has been caught in his own steel trap. |
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| Title: |
The White Darkness
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| Author: |
Geraldine McCaughrean |
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Symone's uncle invites her on an Antarctic tour, but the tour is cut short, and her uncle puts their lives at risk to prove his insane theory that the Earth is hollow. |
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| Title: |
The Winter Road
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| Author: |
Terry Hokenson |
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Willa, a young pilot, decides to fly solo in a small plane to fetch her mother from Northern Ontario. When the plane crashes she is all alone in the snowy wilderness. |
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| Title: |
Tomorrow, When the War Began
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| Author: |
John Marsden |
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Returning from a camping trip, six Australian teens learn their country has been invaded and their families imprisoned by unknown enemies. They must choose whether to run, to surrender, or to become guerilla warriors and fight. |
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| Title: |
Touching Spirit Bear
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| Author: |
Ben Mikaelsen |
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To atone for severely beating a younger boy, Cole must choose: either prison or one year of isolation on a remote Alaskan island. He chooses the island, planning to escape, but nothing is the same after his encounter with a huge white bear. |
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| Title: |
White Fang
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| Author: |
Jack London |
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Half wolf, half dog, White Fang struggles to survive in the Alaskan wilderness with both man and wolf against him. |
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