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Crossing the WireFifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico. |
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My Side of the MountainA young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate |
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Fever, 1793In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. |
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The Wild ChildrenLeft behind when his family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never l |
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Timothy of the CayHaving survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. |
Fic Taylor |
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Read for your LifeThe editors of Read magazine have put together this collection of survival stories by Gary Paulsen, Jules Verne, Jack London, and others. |
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HatchetAfter 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 surviv |
Fic Paulsen |
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Climb Or DieAfter 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. |
Fic Myers |
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The GoatsStripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace. |
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The Island KeeperLonging to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, 16-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inh |
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