Adventure / Survival

TITLE & AUTHOR

Adventure Of Blue Avenger*

On his 16^th birthday, David Schumacher changes his name to "Blue Avenger". In a short 24 hours his life undergoes amazing changes. Is there a connection between free will, destiny and your name?

A young boy reaches manhood while fleeing down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave.

The story of an exuberant, high-spirited boyhood by the Mississippi River that captures the magical years of the very young.

After The First Death*

When a terrorist hijacks a camp bus full of kids, everyone involved becomes a victim.

After The War*

15-year-old Ruth, the sole member of the family to survive the Holocaust, leads a group of children across Europe to illegally enter Palestine and the only safety they have ever known.

Alburquerque

Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered forever the night he is summoned to his mother's deathbed. He learns he is the son of an unknown Mexican man - a man he is desperately compelled to find.

All The Pretty Horses

John Grady Cole is a young Texas rancher who sets off for adventure in the beautiful but dangerous borderland of Mexico.

Beet Fields

The experiences of a 16-year-old boy who runs away from home and becomes a migrant worker.

Black Pearl*

Finding the Pearl of Heaven earns Ramon the hatred of both his people and the notorious devilfish.

Brian's Return*

After returning to civilization, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city, but must return to the wilderness where he really belongs.

Brian's Winter

What if Brian Robeson of Hatchet had not been rescued? Could he have survived the winter in the wilderness?

Canyons*

A mystical link forged between Brennan and the long-dead Apache, Coyote Runs, defies time in this supernatural adventurestory.

Climb Or Die*

While traveling in the Colorado Rockies, the Darcy family drives into a blinding snowstorm. When the car careers off the road, injuring both parents, the teenagers, Danielle and Jake must go for help.

Cold River*

Lizzy Allison and her younger brother Tim battle for survival in a terrifying snowstorm.

Crazy Jack*

In this inventive recreation of Jack and the Beanstalk, Crazy Jack's search for his vanished father yields not gold, but love and a means to build a life.

Crossing

Manny Bustos is an orphan scrounging for food and money in the streets of Juarez, Mexico. To escape his impoverished existence - the filth, physical abuse and nagging hunger - Manny dreams of one day crossing the American border to make his fortune.

Dakota Dream

BENNETT, J

Determination, faith and a lot of crazy luck help Floyd make the journey to the Sioux reservation and embark on the sort of vision quest on which only Native Americans are allowed.

Deathwatch

Madec was not the kind of man Ben would ordinarily have chosen as a companion for a quiet hunting trip. He was a cold man who was dangerous with a gun.

Dogsong*

Russel Suskitt, who is an Eskimo, takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of the village.

Downriver*

Jesse and other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival team abandon their adult leader, steal his van and rafts, and brave the dangerous white waters of the Grand Canyon.

Downsiders

When Tolan ventures out from the tunnels beneath New York City where he lives, and returns with a newcomer, he has broken the Downside law of mingling. The punishment for his crime is death.

Edith's Story: The True Story Of A Young Girl's Courage And Survival During World War II

VELMAN, E

Reconstructed from her diaries, journals and family letters, Edith Velman's personal account stands out as a moving eyewitness account of a young teenager in Holland who, by posing as a gentile, is hidden and survives the war.

Escape From Warsaw

SERRAILLIER, I

Three Polish children try to escape from their war-ravaged home during WW II.

Finding Laura Buggs

One perplexing clue to her past sets Sandy Meyer on an incredible and harrowing journey in search of her lost family, a pilgrimage that brings her face to face with nerve-shattering suspense, unbearable terror and the magnificent capacity of the human heart.

Firegold

After troubling questions about his heritage arise, Jonathan flees to the Red Mountains where he encounters a legendary race of people called Dalriada.

Free Fall*

Four high school boys, lost in an underground cave, must band together in this race-against-time thriller.

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode The Internet Out Of Idaho

Captivating true story of two computer "junkies" on a quest for acceptance that takes them from the dark side of America's technology culture into a world of prosperity and success.

Ghost Canoe*

History, nature and suspense combine as Nathan MacAllister and Native American fisherman Lighthouse George explore the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest to unlock the mystery of a shipwreck.

Goats

Two teenagers run away after a cruel prank and have to face danger and adventure.

Good Courage*

Hatchet*

Compelling and realistic story of a young boy's survival in the Canadian wilderness.

Homecoming*

Four abandoned children take a journey from Connecticut to Maryland in search of love.

Hunter In The Dark

A teenage boy goes on a secret hunting trip alone in an effort to come to terms with his leukemia and to test his strength and resourcefulness in battling the elements and stalking the white-tailed deer that is his quarry.

Into The Wild

When 24-year old Christopher McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness alone, never to be seen alive again, he left behind a storm of controversy and conflicting emotions over his odyssey.

Into Thin Air

The tragedy that took the lives of experienced mountain guides and novice climbers in a raging blizzard atop Mt. Everest in 1996 is chronicled with clarity, poignancy and brutal honesty by someone who had witnessed the event first-hand.

Isaac's Storm

The story of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude - the monster hurricane that submerged Galveston, Texas.

Island Keeper

Unable to deal with her uncaring family, Cleo runs away to a deserted island in Canada where she hopes to prove herself. But when she finally decides to return home, her canoe has been destroyed, and she faces the ultimate challenge in surviving the Canadian winter.

Island Of The Blue Dolphins*

Haunting story of a Native American girl who spent eighteen years alone on a rocky island far off the coast of California in the early 1800's.

Jason's Gold*

Told with bone-chilling authenticity, this gripping survival story follows 15-year-old Jason Hawthorn as he races through the wilderness with his husky to catch up with his brothers in the Klondike gold fields in 1897.

Journey To Nowhere

In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of Western New York, Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.

Jumping Off To Freedom

Killing Frost

Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip to find their country at war. Learning together, they fight back, battling fear, rage and the invading army that has stolen their land, seized their homes, taken their families, and destroyed their future.

Knockdown. The Harrowing True Account Of A Yacht Race Turned Deadly

DUGARD, M

The December 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race ended in disaster with twenty-four boats abandoned and six men dead. Here is a chilling story of the need for adventure, the rage of the sea, and the fight for survival.

Last Mission*

Leaving Home*

Lena*

When their mother dies, Lena and Dion, disguised as boys, run away in search of their mother's family.

Loch*

15-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition to a Vermont lake where prehistoric creatures have been sighted.

Lord Of The Flies*

A group of English schoolboys, marooned on an island, set up there own society in this classic investigation of the roots of fear and violence.

Lost And Found

Martha Drusso collects homeless children. She found R.C. with a note pinned to his shirt, and she takes in the baby, whom she names Belle, because she was present at her birth. When Martha has to return home to Texas for her mother's funeral, R.C. mistakenly places Belle on the wrong train. The search for her is fruitless, and both Martha and R.C. spend three decades hoping to find Belle.

Lost In The Barrens

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventurethat proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined.

Many Waters

L’ENGLE, M

Mark Of Zorro

Maze

Runaway Rick Walter finds himself in the middle of a western landscape of canyons and deserts.

Mouse Rap

It’s summertime in Harlem, and The Mouse (as he calls himself) and his friends look beyond dance contests and basketball for diversion. The rumor of a huge cash stash hidden in Harlem by a 1930’s gangster offers intriguing possibilities.

My Life As A Girl*

During her last summer in Phoenix, Arizona, before going to an eastern college, 18-year-old Jaime works two waitress jobs and plans her escape from a life forever changed by her father's prison sentence.

Nectar In A Sieve

The story of a simple woman in a village in India who, married as a child bride, worked with her husband to wrest a living from the ravaged land.

Never Cry Wolf

True story of a brash young scientist's incredible adventure with a family of wolves in the Canadian wilderness.

Night To Remember

Terrifying account of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912.

Not Exactly The Three Musketeers

Not Exactly the Three Musketeers is a swashbuckling parody of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel.

Perfect Storm

In 1991 the forces of nature converged to create a 100-year storm that caught the North Atlantic fishing fleet at sea and unprotected.

Pigs In Heaven

This is a sequel to The Bean Trees. Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee Indian daughter, Turtle, are on a trip to the Hoover Dam, where Turtle is the only person to see a man fall over the side. The rescue makes Turtle a heroine, but becoming a heroine engenders a new disaster.

Ransom

Held hostage on a bus, five kids make some tling discoveries about themselves when they are forced to cooperate to escape.

Reluctant God

A walk in the Egyptian hills near her archaeologist father’s dig leads Lorna into strange territory - and a friendship with an ancient pharaoh’s son.

River Thunder

Jessie and the rest of the crew from Downriver return to the Grand Canyon to test their new maturity running the big rapids.

Rough Waters*

After the death of their parents, teenage brothers Scott and Gregg are sent to live with an uncle in Colorado. Rocky, the owner of a white-water rafting company, has the boys working right away, struggling to master the art of survival both off and on the river.

Rules Of The Road

Jenna Boller, employee of a shoe store chain, is hired to drive the store's elderly president for the summer. Thus begins a cross-country adventurewhere she and her employer learn a lot about the rules of the road - and the rules of life.

Runs With Horses*

As a member of the last band of Apaches to resist capture by the US Government, 16-year-old Runs With Horses struggles to honor his training as a warrior in the face of the historical realities of 1886.

Shark Beneath The Reef

Tomas Torres, who comes from a family of shark fishers, is torn between attending high school and a future of line fishing for sharks. However, all fish are being sharply depleted by foreign fishing fleets, and when the Mexican government finally bans these fleets from the Sea of Cortez, they also take steps to remove local fishermen.

Shelter From The Storm*

Dunbar once again brings us to the crazy and colorful city of New Orleans. This time it's Mardi Gras - and a violent storm drenches the city in chaos. As the water level rises, a dangerous gang of marooned bank robbers become desperate to escape - and it's up to Tubby to thwart their murderous plans.

Shipwreck At The Bottom Of The World

A riveting account of Schackleton's expedition to Antarctica in 1914, the wreck of his ship and the amazing story of his crew's survival after months in the uncharted arctic wasteland.

Slave Dancer

Graphic tale of Jessie, who was kidnapped from New Orleans by sailors from a slave ship and forced to play his fife so the slaves could dance to keep their muscles strong.

Smugglers*

John Spencer, 16 years old, is entrusted with his father's schooner. Can a former smuggler's ship and mysterious crew be trusted to conduct honest trade?

Snow Bound

Two emotionally immature teenagers, whose basic needs for food and shelter have always been taken care of, are forced to come to grips with raw survival.

Someone Is Hiding On Alcatraz Island

Danny Sullivan becomes an unwilling hero when a gang stalks and traps him on the deserted Alcatraz Island.

Sounder*

This extraordinary, moving story tells about a black family of sharecroppers saved from a posse by their loyal coon dog.

Starman Jones

It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship, if you're a smart lad like Max Jones, but it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planet after passage through a time warp... perhaps an unknown century.

Stealing Freedom*

Stinker From Space*

Streets Of Gold

Marissa and her brother flee Poland and struggle to build a new life in America on the unforgiving streets of New York.

Streets Of Laredo

Summer Of The Monkeys

A boy and his dog lead an exasperating, Humorous pursuit of a band of escaped circus monkeys across rural Oklahoma.

Sweetgrass*

Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to marry a young warrior, Eagle-Sun, but her father feels she is too young for marriage. Then a smallpox epidemic breaks out, and Sweetgrass is one of a few women left to fight for the survival of the tribe. It is a chance to prove her maturity, but is she strong enough to fight cold, hunger and disease?

Talisman

Tenderness*

The lives of two troubled teens dramatically intersect in this psychological thriller as teenage serial killer Eric Poole and runaway Lori Cranston embark on a journey that will either save of destroy them.

Terror On Tulip Lane*

Hakeem Kemp baby sits Maurice, a rich and spoiled 10-year-old, to earn college money. One of Maurice's pranks leads to a disaster when a fire destroys his parents' lavish home and nearly kills him.

Thin Ice*

Arden is a creative independent 17-year-old who has been raised by her older brother. When Scott disappears, presumed dead in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he has staged his death.

Till Death Do Us Part*

Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, 18-year-old April faces an uncertain future with her fiancee. Mark, a race car driver with cystic fibrosis, suffers a terrible accident and this forces April to make a difficult decision

Tiltawhirl John*

Time Enough For Drums*

Troubling A Star*

Vicky Austin is given a trip to Antarctica as a birthday present, but the trip is not what she imagined. As she becomes caught up in a mystery involving drugs, nuclear waste and family secrets, Vicky discovers that life - hers included - is as fragile as the ecosystem of Antarctica."

True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

Set in 1832, this is the compelling story of a young girl's sailing trip from England to Providence, Rhode Island.

True North

Two teenage girls risk their lives on the Underground Railroad in pre-Civil War America. Afrika will risk her life to reach freedom, and Lucy is drawn into the secret movement.

Tuck Everlasting

Twilight Boy*

Two Old Women: An ALAska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage, And Survival

Abandoned by their tribe during a fierce winter famine in the Alaskan wilderness, two cantankerous elderly Athabascan women learn to survive on their own in this moving depiction of life in the far north.

Walkabout

A young girl and her brother learn to communicate with an Aborgine youth when they are thrown together in an effort to survive the wilderness of the Australian outback.

Wanderer

An intimate journey of self-discovery unfolds when Sophie joins her three uncles and two male cousins on a transatlantic sailing trip to visit the uncles' father, her adopted grandfather, in England.

Weetzie Bat

This story follows the wild adventure of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles punk friends, Dirk, Duck-Man, and Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.

Where The Red Fern Grows

Billy and his precious coon hound pups win the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, capture the wily ghost coon, and bravely fight with a mountain lion. Sadly, the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy.

White Water*

Greg has to confront his own fears and assume a leadership role when his father is bitten by a rattlesnake during a white-water rafting trip.

Wild Kid

This coming-of-age story tells of the friendship forged between Sammy, who is mildly retarded, and the "wild child" he meets when he gets lost in the wilderness.

Willie And The Ratlesnake King

This story of a young boy yearning to be a man is set in 1888 in rural Pennsylvania. Willie is looking for adventure and thinks he has found it when he runs off with a traveling medicine show ring "The Rattlesnake King Extraordinaire".

Within Reach, My Everest Story

In this suspenseful first-person narrative, 16-year-old Mark Pfetzer relates his experiences as the youngest climber to attempt Everest, an unwilling witness to the tragedy documented in Krakauer's Thin Air.