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Survival

The Transall Saga

Gary Paulsen

While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

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The Wreckers

Iain Lawrence

Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.

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The Goats

Brock Cole

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It's Nothing to a Mountain

Sid Hite

After the death of their parents, thirteen-year-old Lisette and her nine-year-old brother Riley go to live with their grandparents in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia where, along with facing thei

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Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

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 hebeen forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only hi

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No Way Out

Ivy Ruckman

Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her fiance, and four friends battle a flashflood.

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The Poseidon Adventure

Paul Gallico

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.

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Walk Out a Brother

Thomas Baird

Only sixteen when his father dies, Don runs away from the domination of his hated older brother and crosses paths with a murderer high in the Rocky Mountains, where he is faced with the choice between

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

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