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1) Getting air
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English
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After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
4) Shelter
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature!Knowing how to build a safe shelter in any environment is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that a shelter can be made from sticks and leaves? Or that it can even be made from snow? Learn all this and more in Shelter - a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore.ABOUT THE SERIES:Learning basic survival skills will give every kid the confidence...
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Stranded. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
7) The river
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Series
Brian's saga volume 2
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English
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Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists...
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My weirder-est school volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this fourth book in the My Weirder-est School series, A.J. and his friends learn how to survive in the wilderness. At-ten-tion! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A.J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and earn cool badges. But scout leader Miss Blake would rather prepare them for falling boulders and surprise bear attacks. When they go on an overnight camping trip, will they be prepared...
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Brian's saga volume 3
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English
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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 with only his survival pack and hatchet.
10) Hatchet
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Series
Brian's saga volume 1
Language
English
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Back to School Reads - MID
If You Like I Survived, Read These!
If You Like Warriors, Read These!
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
If You Like I Survived, Read These!
If You Like Warriors, Read These!
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
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After 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 survive his parents' divorce.
11) Mission atomic
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The 39 clues. Doublecross volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Cahill family member from the past is out for revenge in this thrilling conclusion to the Doublecross series.
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English
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"On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. This is a fast-paced, uplifting story that...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
What would you do if you were stranded or trapped in a situation where you had to fight for your life? "When the Worst Happens" is a collection of intense, true stories set in distant corners of the earth. These action-packed accounts reveal the critical decisions that determined the fate of each victim.
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Last kids on Earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Fantastical Fiction - JF
If You Like Babysitter's Club, Read These!
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
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If You Like Babysitter's Club, Read These!
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
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Description
"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--
15) Brian's return
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Series
Brian's saga volume 4
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English
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After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
17) Deadzone
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
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English
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
19) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
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