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Adventure/Survival
SOS Titanic Eve Bunting
YA PB Bunting
Ethnicity and class conflict comes into play in this novel. Barry is fifteen, Irish, and from the upper class when he boards the Titanic. He is on his way to join his parents, who left him to be raised by his grandparents, in America. Frank, Jonnie, and Pegeen Flynn are also Irish but of the lower class, also sailing aboard the Titanic, but in steerage. The brothers harbor resentment toward Barry, which interferes with his budding relationship with Pegeen. Then disaster strikes when the ship begins to sink. Who will hang on until the Carpathia can save them?
The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis
YA PB Ellis
When the Taliban comes to power in Afghanistan, Parvana's father is arrested. In a country where being female is already dangerous, Parvana does the unthinkable: to help her family survive, she dresses as a boy so she can take a job.
Overboard Elizabeth Fama
YA Fama
Blond-haired, pale Emily feels like an outsider in Sumatra, where her parents have traveled to be medical personnel. Her deepest wish is to return home to Boston. When she learns that her uncle is exploring on a nearby island, Emily jumps on a ferry-without her parents' knowledge-to go visit him. But the ferry is old and overloaded, and sinks! As Emily tried desperately to survive in the ocean, she finds an Indonesian boy floating in a life jacket. The two cling to each other and deal with cold, sharks, hunger-and wrack their brains trying to find a way to survive. Based on a real ferry accident off the coast of Sumatra in 1996.
Hole in the Sky Pete Hautman
YA PB Hautman
The year is 2028, and a massive flu virus has wiped out most of the earth's population. The survivors have an immunity to the disease and see themselves as "the chosen ones," therefore they can rule the other survivors by fear and intimidation. Main character Ceei's sister has been taken into this cult, so Ceei and his friend Tom set out ot rescue her. Along the way they meet a Hopi girl who believes there is a magical path out of their diseased world and into a new one. Do they survive the journey?
Hoot Carl Hiassen
YA Hiassen
Roy misses Montana. He's the new kid in Coconut Grove, Florida, where he is picked on by big jerks like Dana Matherson. One day Roy looks out the school bus window and sees a strange shoeless kid running. Curious, Roy does some digging around and finds out that the running boy is the brother of tough girl Beatrice. Together, Roy and Beatrice discover the burrowing owls that live in the abandoned lot. The owls are endangered, but the lot is due to be bulldozed! Roy and his new friends set out on a mission to save them.
Escaping the Giant Wave Peg Kehert
YA Kehert
13-year-old Kyle and his family take a vacation to the Oregon coast, where Kyle is ready to have a great time. His parents go yachting and he is babysitting his little sister BeeBee when an earthquake hits! After the earthquake, a tsunami floods the area, and everyone is advised to go inland and uphill. Can Kyle and BeeBee outrun nature? And what happened to their parents? There is also a subplot here where Kyle deals with a bully and regains his self-esteem.
Tomorrow, When the War Began John Marsden
YA Marsden
When Ellie and her friends return home from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find a terrible shock: their families are gone and their houses are abandoned. Soon they learn that theur country has veen invaded, and everyone in their town has been captured. Now they must make a decision: should they run back into the brutal bush and hide, give themselves up, or stay and fight the enemy?This is the first book in the series
Shackleton's Stowaway Victoria McKerna
YA McKernan
This is the story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the Antarctic and an 18-year-old stowaway named Perce Blackborrow. Perce is 18 and hides in a locker for two days aboard the Endurance before he is discovered. Then he signs up to be a steward aboard the ship and looks forward to the adventure until they are stranded in Elephant Island-for months! Finally, Shackleton and five other crew members decide to go for help, while the others try to stave off freezing to death.
Daemon Hall Andrew Nance
YA Nance
Ian Tremblin is a popular horror writer, and he decides to hold a short-story contest for teens. The five finalists get to spend the night with him in the "haunted" mansion called Daemon Hall. Anyone who can't make it through the night are disqualified. When the teens reach Daemon Hall, they are told to gather around candlelight and tell their stories, which run from creepy urban legends to hybrid killer spiders. Main character Wade is sure he can last the night and be the winner of the contest, but then, one by one people start disappearing. Is this merely a trick planned by Tremlin to scare everyone, or are there really supernatural happenings at Daemon Hall?
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment James Patterson
YA Patterson
Max is 14 and part of a group of genetically-enhanced kids that have wings and can fly, among other unique traits. The kids were created in a lab as part of an experiment. Max and her gang are on the run from wolf-like predators called Erasers. When Angel, the youngest of the group, is kidnapped by the Erasers, the gang must pool all their talents to rescue her. A fast-moving favorite, The Angel Experiment is the first in the Maximum Ride series.
Peak Roland Smith
YA Smith
Peak Marcello knows he has a weird name, but it fits him, since he likes to climb things - very tall things. When he scales a skyscraper in his hometown of New York, he is arrested and sent to live with his eccentric father, who runs a mountain-climbing company in Thailand. Peak's dad wants him to climb to the top of Mount Everest; if he can do it, he'll be the youngest climber to ever achieve that goal. But is the challenge worth his life? This is an action-packed adventure story that'll keep you up all night!
River Rats Caroline Stevermer
YA Stevermer
A nuclear holocaust called The Flash destroys the world as we know it. The Mississippi is now a toxic sludge, but it is home to the River Rats, a group of teens who live on an old riverboat, cruising up and down the river and playing rock and roll. Then the Rats rescue a stranger from the river, and the ways of the old world threaten their new, fragile existence.
The She Carol Plum-Ucci
YA Plum-Ucci
Evan's parents disappeared years ago while sailing, and the mystery haunts him. Evan knows about the dangers of the sea-the shipwrecks and drug smugglers, and the terrible creature known as The She. Evan's friend, Grey, claims to hear The She screaming on stormy nights. This propels the teens to launch an investigation surrounding Evan's missing parents.
