Survival

F Avi	Avi. Poppy. Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
F App	Applegate, Katherine. Aftermath. The Remnants, a group of people who escaped Earth shortly before an asteroid strike and lived in a suspended sleep state for five hundred years, return to their home planet to find a small population of humans living underground.
F Arm	Armstrong, Jennifer. The Kindling. In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus. Book One of the Fire-US Trilogy. By the same author: The Kiln, Keepers of the Flame.
F Cal	Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party. Gripping account of the Donner party's infamous 1846 trek from Illinois to the largely unsettled territory of California chronicles the unfortunate choices, travel conditions and personality conflicts that conspired against the pioneers to leave them stranded in the mountains for the winter.
F Cam	Campbell, Eric. The Shark Callers. Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas.
F Chr	Christopher, John. Empty World. When a deadly virus kills off most of the world's population, a teenaged boy tries to survive in a seemingly empty England.
F Cle	Clements, Andrew. A Week in the Woods. The fifth grade’s annual camping tip in the woods tests Mark’s survival skills and his ability to relae to a teacher who seems out to get him. By the same author: Things Not Seen.
F Col	Cole, Brock. The Goats. Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
F Cow	Cowley Joy. Hunter. A Maori boy in 1803 and a plane crash survivor marooned on a deserted island in 2003 experience interconnecting visions.
F Cov	Coville, Bruce. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy about shipwreck, mistaken identity and misplaced love.
F Cus	Cushman, Karen. Rodzina. A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
F Def	Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.
F Dic	Dickinson, Peter. Po’s Story. As a member of the Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, young Po wants to prove his bravery but finds that doing so requires overcoming great obstacles. By the same author: Suth’s Story, Mana’s Story, Noli’s Story.
F Dye	Dyer, Thomas A. A Way of his Own. A lame boy from a very primitive nomadic tribe is abandoned by his family and, together with a girl stolen from another tribe, tries to survive a cruel winter.
F Eck	Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk’s Hill. A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. By the same author : Return to Hawk’s Hill: A Novel.
F Fam	Fama, Elizabeth. Overboard. Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet bur firm Islamic faith.
F Goo	Goodman, Joan E. Paradise: Based on a True Story of Survival. In 1542, eager to escape the French Huguenot household of her harsh father, sixteen-year-old Marguerite de la Rocque sails with her equally stern uncle, the Sieru de Roberval, to the New World, where is she left alone on an island with only her young Catholic lover and her chaperone to help her survive. By the same author: Peregrine.
F Geo	George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. 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. By the same author : Julie y los lobos, My side of the mountain, Julie of the wolves treasury, Julie’s wolf pack, River Rats, inc.
F Gol	Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. After a place crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.
F Gun	Gunning, Thomas G. Amazing Escapes. Presents nine tales of escape and survival against great odds including escapes from a great white shark, a volcanic eruption, and a fall through a thunderstorm.
F Hal	Halvorson, Marilyn. Hold on, Geronimo. Having lost the use of his right hand and gotten into a private war with his spirited cousin Kat, fifteen-year-old Lance thinks things cannot get worse, until a plane crash strands them together in a snowy Canadian wilderness.
F Hil	Hill, Kirkpatrick. Toughboy and Sister. The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife. By the same author : Winter Camp.
F Hob	Hobbs, Will. Far North. 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. By the same author: Downriver, Ghost Canoe, The Maze.
F Hyd	Hyde, Dayton O. Island of the Loons. During the year he is held prisoner by an escaped convict on an uninhabited island in Lake Superior, a young boy watches his captor change from desperate criminal to a gentler man absorbed in the abundant wildlife of the island.
F Keh	Kehret, Peg. Earthquake Terror. When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
F Kor	Korman, Gordon. Survival. Six children are stuck on a deserted island, and they need to learn to survive on the island. By the same author: The Deep, The Climb, Shipwreck
F Las	Lasky, Kathryn. The Capture. Soren, a barn owl that is captured and taken to a special school for orphaned owls, is befriended by elf owl Gylfie and together the two set out to discover what is really going on at St. Aegolius Academy. Book One of the Guardians of Ga’hoole series. By the same author: The Rescue, The Burning, The Hatchling.
F Law	Lawrence, Iain. The Wreckers. Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town where they are stranded. By the same author: The Smugglers.
F Mag	Maguire, Gregory. I Feel Like the Morning Star. Three teenagers in a post-holocaust survival colony find that their shelter has become a prison and decide to break out.
F Mar	Marsden, John. Tomorrow: When the War Begins. Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. By the same author: Darkness, Be my Friend, The Dead of Night.
F Mat	Matthews, L. S. Fish. As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.
F Maz	Mazer, Harry. Cave Under the City. With their mother in the hospital and their father's whereabouts unknown, two boys take to the streets of New York to escape being sent to a children's shelter. By the same author : The Iisland Keeper, SnowBound.
F Mcc	Mcclung, Rober M. Hugh Glass, Mountain Man. A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.
F Mik	Mikaelsen, Ben. Rescue Josh McGuire . 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. By the same author: Red Midnight.
F Moe	Moeri Louise. Save Queen of Sheba. After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.
F Mor	Morpurgo, Michael. Kensuke’s Kingdom. When Michael is swept off his family’s yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive – until he finds he is not alone.
F Mow	Mowat, Farley. Lost in the Barrens. Two boys, one a Cree Indian and the other the city-born nephew of a trapper, need all their skills and knowledge to survive in the Arctic wilderness they are exploring alone. By the same author: Woman in the Mists, Never Cry Wolf.
F Mye	Myers, Edward. Survial of the Fittest. Rus, Jodie, and Matt survive the crash of a small plane in the Peruvian rainforest and must endure a multitude of physical and psychological hardships as they attempt to reach safety.
F Nap	Napoli, Donna Jo, Stones in Water. After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
F Nel	Nelson, O. T. The Girl who Owned a City. When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.
F O’De	O’Dell Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. 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. The adventures of a young Indian girl, living alone off the coast of California on the Island of San Nicholas in the early 1800's. By the same author : Sarah Bishop.
F Orv	Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run. Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
F Pau	Paulsen, Gary Hatchet After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness and learns to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother. He also learns to survive his parents' divorce. By the same author : The river, Brian’s winter, Tucket’s ride, The voyage of the Frog, The Transall saga, Brain’s winter, Brain’s return
F Phi	Philbrick, Nathaniel. Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex. Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship “Essex” by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.
F Rea	Read, Piers Paul. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. This is the story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains. Of the forty five people on the plane at the time of the crash, sixteen came down from the mountain about seventy days later with a saga of survival not easily forgotten.
F Rot	Roth, Arthur J. The Iceberg Hermit. Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.
F Sed	Sedgwick, Marcus. Floodland. After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents. By the same author: The Dark Horse.
F Seb	Sebestyen, Ouida. The Girl in the Box. Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.
E Sis	Sis, Peter. A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North. With the help of Eskimos, Jan Welzl survives a perilous journey from central Europe to the Arctic regions in the late 1800s.
F Smi	Smith, Roland. Thunder Cave. Determined, after his mother’s accidential death, to foil his stepfather’s plans for his future, fourteen-year-0ld Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studyng elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
F Spe	Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver. 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.
F Spe	Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage. Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
F Ste	Steig, William. Abel’s Island. Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
F Str	Strasser, Todd. Shark Bite. When Ian and his sister, Talia, are invited to sail from Texas to Mexico with Talia's boyfriend, Stewart, and his dad, Ian doesn't want to go, but Talia does, so he agrees. Ian and Stewart don't get along, but Ian enjoys the trip anyway. Then a storm strikes, injuring Stewart's dad and damaging the boat. Now the boat is slowly sinking, and to make matters worse, the sharks are circling. Can Ian, Talia, and Stewart survive?
F Tay	Taylor Theodore. The Cay. When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. By the same author : Sweet Friday Island
F The	Thesman, Jean. When the Road Ends. Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own.
F Van	Vanasse, Deb. Out of the Wilderness. Josh tries to endure living in the Alaskan wilderness with his father and half-brother Nathan, but Nathan’s uncompromising reverence for nature and its wild creatures causes difficulties that reinforce Josh’s determination to return to city life.
F Voi	Voight, Cynthia. Homecoming. Thirteen-year-old Dicey takes care of her three siblings over the course of a summer in New England and tries to find a new home for all of them after they are abandoned by their mother. Sequel to Dicey’s Song. By the same author: Come a Stranger, The Runner.
F Wea	Weaver, Will. Memory Boy: A Novel. Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
F Wys	Wyss, Johann David. The Swiss Family Robinson. Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife, and four sons struggle to survive until they can be rescued.
613.69 Piv	Piven, Joshua. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Great escapes and entrances, the best defense, leaps of faith, emergencies, adventure survial.
795.51 Ral	Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The author recounts his harrowing experiences of being trapped for sic days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his live.
810.8 Rea	Read for your Life: Tales of Survival from the Editors of Read Magazine. Contains: A Heros’s Courage, The True Story of Flight 90; The Gold in Last Change Mine; Trapped in Kolob Creek Canyon; Lennigen Versus the Ants.
996.1 Kra	Kraske, Robert. Marooned: The Strange but true adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. Presents the story of Scottish mariner Alexander Selkirk and his experiences marooned on a South Pacific island for four years.