Survival Stories

FIC AND                      

           Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Fever, 1793.  1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

                New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, c2000.  In 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.

 

FIC CLE                      

           Clements, Andrew.  A week in the woods.  1st ed.  New York :

                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002.  The fifth

                grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's

                survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who

                seems out to get him.

 

FIC COO                      

           Cooper, Clare.  Earthchange.  Minneapolis : Lerner, 1986, c1985.

                After a catastrophe turns Earth into an inhospitable

                wilderness, young Rose sets out to find help for her

                grandmother and a baby. She finally reaches a group of

                survivors with scientific interests in restoring Earth to

                its original beauty.

 

FIC DEF                      

           Defoe, Daniel.  Robinson Crusoe.  New York : DK Publishing,

                c1998.  During one of his adventurous voyages in the 1600s,

                an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and

                lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

 

FIC ECK                      

           Eckert, Allan W.  Incident at Hawk's Hill.  Toronto ; New York :

                Bantam, 1987, c1971.  A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders

                into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the

                protection of a badger.

 

FIC FAR                      

           Farmer, Nancy.  A girl named Disaster.  New York : Orchard Books,

                c1996.  While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo

                struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing

                comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

 

FIC GEO                      

           George, Jean Craighead.  On the far side of the mountain.  (U.S.

                ed.).  New York : Dutton, c1990.  Sam's peaceful existence

                in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs

                away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation

                officer.

 

FIC GEO                      

           George, Jean Craighead, 1919-.  Julie of the wolves.  New York :

                HarperCollins, c1972.  While running away from home and an

                unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes

                lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a

                wolf pack.

 

FIC GEO                      

           George, Jean Craighead, 1919-.  My side of the mountain.  New

                York : Dutton, c1988.  A 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

                realization that he needs human companionship.

 

FIC HIL                      

           Hill, Kirkpatrick.  Toughboy and Sister.  1st ed.  New York :

                McElderry, c1990.  The death of their drunken father strands

                eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote

                fishing cabin in the Yukon, where they spend a summer trying

                to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.

 

FIC HOB                      

           Hobbs, Will.  Far North.  New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1996.

                After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old

                Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a

                winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.

 

FIC KEH                      

           Kehret, Peg.  The secret journey.  New York : Pocket Books,

                c1999.  In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship

                on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all

                her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.

 

FIC KOR                      

           Korman, Gordon.  Island.  New York : Scholastic, c2001.  Six

                children try to survive on a desert island in the Pacific

                Ocean after a storm destroys their boat.

 

FIC MIK                      

           Mikaelsen, Ben.  Red midnight.  New York : HarperCollins, c2002.

                After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and

                his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try

                to reach the United States.

 

FIC MIK                      

           Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-.  Rescue Josh McGuire.  1st ed.  New York :

                Hyperion Books for Children, c1991.  When thirteen-year-old

                Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned

                bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must

                fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm.

 

FIC ODE                      

           O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.  Sarah Bishop.  Boston : Houghton

                Mifflin, 1980.  Left alone after the deaths of her father

                and brother who take opposite sides in the War for

                Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to

                arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for

                herself in the wilderness.

 

FIC ODE                      

           O'Dell, Scott, 1989 - 1989.  Island of the blue dolphins.  New

                York : Dell, 1960.  Records the life of an Indian girl who

                survived alone for 18 years on an island off the California

                coast.

 

FIC PAU                      

           Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet.  New York : Bradbury Press, c1987.

                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.

 

FIC SHA                      

           Shaw, Janet Beeler, 1937-.  Kaya's escape! : a survival story.

                Middleton, WI : Pleasant, c2002.  In 1764, after Kaya and

                her sister are kidnapped, she tries to find a way to escape.

 

FIC SMI                      

           Smith, Roland, 1951-.  Thunder Cave.  1st ed.  New York :

                Hyperion Books for Children, c1995.  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.

 

FIC SPE                      

           Speare, Elizabeth George.  The sign of the beaver.  Boston :

                Houghton Mifflin, c1983.  Left alone to guard the family's

                wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is

                hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their

                skills.

 

FIC SPE                      

           Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-.  Call it courage.  New York :

                Macmillan, 1971, c1940.  The son of a chief of Polynesians

                who worshipped courage, Mafatu sets out alone in his canoe

                to conquer his fear of the sea.

 

FIC VOI                      

           Voigt, Cynthia.  Homecoming.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum Books

                for Young Readers, c1981.  Abandoned by their mother, four

                children begin a search for a home and an identity.

 

FIC WAL                      

           Paton Walsh, Jill.  The Green Book.  [S.l.] : Farrar, Straus and

                Giroux, c1982.  As their small stock of essential supplies

                dwindles, a group of refugees from Earth struggles to make

                their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

 

FIC WIL                       

           Willis, Patricia.  Danger along the Ohio.  New York : Clarion

                Books, c1997.  Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793,

                twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to

                survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the

                Shawnee Indians.

 

FIC WYS                      

           Wyss, Johann David.  The Swiss family Robinson.  New York :

                Grosset & Dunlap, c1949.  Relates the fortunes of a

                shipwrecked family.