Survival Fiction
Note: Book descriptions are from Follett Library Resources: "Titlewave" http://www.titlewave.com
| AUCH, MARY JANE Journey to Nowhere In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family. |
| DURRANT, LYNDA My Last Skirt Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War. |
| BAGDASARIAN, ADAM Forgotten Fire The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915. |
| BAUER, JOAN Backwater While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family. |
| FARMER, NANCY A Girl Named Disaster 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. |
| GEORGE, JEAN CRAIGHEAD Julie of the Wolves Newbery Medal, 1973 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. My Side of the Mountain |
| GOLDING, WILLIAM Lord of the Flies After a plane 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. |
| HAHN, MARY DOWNING Hear the Wind Blow: A Novel of the Civil War With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War. |
| HOBBS, WILL Beardance While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission.
Far North
Jason's Gold |
| HOUSTON, JAMES Frozen Fire Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic. |
| KETCHUM, LIZA Orphan Journey Home In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves. |
| LEVITAN, SONIA Clem's Chances In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father. |
| MORGAN, CLAY The Boy Who Spoke Dog After being marooned on an island near New Zealand, Jack, an orphaned cabin boy from San Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who protect the local sheep from wild dogs. |
| 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. |
| MYERS, EDWARD Climb or Die After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother Jake must scale a mountain to find help. |
| NAIDOO, BEVERLY Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story Separated from their mother by the difficult conditions for blacks in South Africa, Naledi and her younger brother travel over 300 kilometers to find her in Johannesburg.
No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa The Other Side of Truth |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ORLEV, URI The Island on Bird Street During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions. |
| PAULSEN, GARY Brian's Winter Companion book to: Hatchet and The river. 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.
Hatchet The River Soldier's Heart |
| REISS, JOHANNA The Upstairs Room A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II. |
| SHEA, PEGI DEITZ Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage. |
| TAYLOR, THEODORE The Cay Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man. |
| WARREN, ANDREA Surviving Hitler Nonfiction. A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager. |
| WULFFSON, DON Soldier X In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front. |