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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....
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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...
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...
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Language
English
Description
Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
SURVIVOR: One World — For the first time, the game begins with two tribes sharing one beach. Alliances can be formed between the Salani and Manono tribes - 18 castaways split into men vs. women - adding yet another layer of intrigue to this competitive game. And in another Survivor first, one tribe gives away the immunity they've won to the other tribe, thereby facing tribal council by choice. The ultimate goal of these castaways, from all different...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
SURVIVOR: Philippines – Fifteen new castaways are joined by three returning players who were medically evacuated from the game, hoping to finish what they started. For the first time in 17 seasons, the castaways are split into three tribes: Kalabaw (Water Buffalo), Tandang (Rooster), and Matsing (Monkey), each with a hidden immunity idol in plain sight! Surrounded by water, many challenges are marine-based battles in this competition for the title...
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,...
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...
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.
Series
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"America the beautiful is also America the remote, wild, uninhabited and inhospitable. For Survivorman Les Stroud, that's an invitation too tempting to resist. Could you survive a harsh environment alone, without food, water or equipment of any kind? For seven long days and nights? Probably not. But then you're not Les Stroud"--Container.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Many wilderness adventurers know that no matter how prepared they are, they must expect the unexpected. Sometimes, that may mean getting lost, or worse stranded. This title teaches young wilderness adventurers what to do in these situations.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Would you eat a giant spider? Would you eat cooked spider eggs? What if you were starving to death? People stranded for long periods of time in the wilderness face questions like these. But sometimes no food to eat is the least of people's worries. How long could you survive in a barren landscape with no shelter and a fractured skull? See how these survivors did it.--Publishers description from Amazon.com
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