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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
Author
Series
Maze runner volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Publisher
distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live your life in the wilderness, using only the things nature has provided? This is the History series about three men who have devoted their lives to survival in its simplest form. But how simple is it really? Watch as these men face off against mudslides, falling trees, ravaging weather and even hungry animals to make sure they obtain the food and supplies they'll need to make it through the brutal...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a run-down New Orleans suburb, an overprotected, bored teenager with cystic fibrosis becomes involved in a dangerous game when a mysterious group called the Society invites her to complete a few dares for the chance of winning big money to help pay for her costly medication and future college expenses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued, and these schoolboys marooned on this tropical island revert...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
There are two stories in play here, bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding northernmost Minnesota wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint -- instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He'd done this once before, thirty-some years earlier, in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious,...
10) Go as a river
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
11) Brian's winter
Author
Series
Hatchet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Passage volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Twelve have been destroyed, and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—-and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. --Publisher
13) Hunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Someone is luring men from the streets to play a mysterious, high stakes game in the English countryside. Former Special Forces officer David Shelley will go undercover to take them down. But this might be a game he can't win.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The men continue to heed the call of the wild. From Montana to Alaska to Maine, Tom, Rich, Eustace, Marty and Charlie each confront menacing elements, from grizzlies and sub-zero temps to time away from family and the threat of losing the lifestyle they love. Time and the environment are unforgiving, but they'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. Watch as these wildlife masterminds fearlessly brave nature's onslaught on their quest to live...
15) The human race
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eighty people are abducted from a city street by an unknown entity and forced to participate in a brutal race to the death. The rules are simple; follow the arrows or you will die, step on the grass and you will die, get lapped twice and you will die. Only one participant will survive. Race or die. There can only be one winner, but who will survive and for what purpose?
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Far away from civilization, using survival skills and sheer cunning to stay fed, clothed, and alive, the Mountain Men pick up the pieces in the wake of last winter's Great Polar Vortex and gear up for whatever unpredictable Mother Nature has in store for them next. --Publisher
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins’ B and B in Lost Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The sprawling forest surrounding the lodge can be harsh and unforgiving, but when Alex meets rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell, he offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from...
18) Crash
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
19) The great alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
20) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.
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