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TESTS OF SURVIVALStories of Adventure in Junior Fiction |
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| Tracks in the Snow Bledsoe, Lucy Jane Erin and her science project partner, Tiffany, become lost in the snow-covered Sierra mountains when Erin leads them on a trek to find her missing babysitter. The Incredible Journey A Siamese cat, an old Bull Terrier, and a young Labrador Retriever travel together 250 miles throughout the Canadian wilderness to find their family. Place of Lions When the plane flying Chris and his father crashes on the Serengeti Plain, Chris sets out to find help and finds that his journey is paralleled by that of an aging lion. Survival Series A collection of historical fiction with young people facing disaster and finding the courage and determination they never dreamed they had! I Am the Ice Worm A plane crash leaves fourteen-year-old Allison stranded in the Arctic. Life in southern California never prepared her for the lessons she would learn about how other people live, love, and survive when she is rescued by the Inuit. Incident at Hawk’s Hill A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian Prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Based on a true story. Soaring Eagle Julio, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1845, finds friendship and a clue to his identity while living with the Cheyenne tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail. Jim Ugly The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father’s part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West. Monkey Island Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. Julie’s Wolf Pack Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting under his new leadership. My Side of the Mountain A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his animal friends, and hisultimate realization that he needs human companionship. Nora Ryan’s Song Twelve-year-old Nora Ryan’s courage helps her family survive Ireland’s potato famine. Winter Camp Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend’s winter trapping camp. Kiss the Dust Her father’s involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future. Hugh Glass, Mountain Man A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear. Sparrow Hawk Red Thirteen-year-old Ricky, son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother’s murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers Death Walk Saved from an encounter with wolves in Alaska, Joel meets a trapper named Mike Donovan. When the two learn that trappers are being killed and robbed of their furs, Joel and Mike head for the nearest town. Will they make it in time? Climb or Die After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, must scale a mountain to find help. Island of the Blue Dolphins This book records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast. Brian’s Winter 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 alone. Tucket Adventures A frontier series that features a fifteen-year-old boy and the two orphans he adopts as they travel across the dangerous West. Thunder Cave Determined, after his mother’s accidental death, to foil his stepfather’s plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya. Cay When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old African are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean. When the Road Ends Three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident, abandoned by their slovenly caretaker, must try to survive on their own. Goodby, Vietnam Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. Danger Along the Ohio Lost in the Ohio River Valley in 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness. The Swiss Family Robinson Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on a tropical island. For a list of other books about survival, please enter “SU Survival-Juvenile Fiction” on the computer catalog. |
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