Adventure and Survival Books
| YA ALMOND |
Heaven EyesErin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. Sometimes there is nothing left but to run away, to run for freedom. And that is what Erin and two friends do, run away one night downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine, maybe, and you might not think it's true. |
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| YA BRADLEY |
For Freedom, The Story of a French Spy
Based on interviews with the real Suzanne David, this story of World War II heroism relates how a teenage Suzanne, training to become an opera singer, is recruited as a secret courier by an organizer in the French Resistance. |
| YA CHEN |
Wandering WarriorWhat do you get when you cross Harry Potter with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Wandering Warrior, Da Chen's first book of fiction. There is tons of whiz-bang action at every turn. Chen's work is a culturally poignant and energetic adventure story. |
| YA COONEY |
Goddess of YesterdayTaken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy. |
| YA FARMER |
A Girl Named DisasterWhile fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. |
| YA HOBBS |
Leaving ProtectionSixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest. |
| YA HOBBS |
Wild Man IslandAfter fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America. |
| The Alex Rider Adventures by Anthony Horowitz | |
| YA HOROWITZ |
StormbreakerAfter the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Point Blank: An Alex Rider AdventureFresh from his training by MI6, Alex Rider is headed for an exclusive private school in the French Alps because the isolated mountain academy is linked to the deaths of two prominent men. Though Alex finds himself in a few tight spots, his courage and ingenuity prevent the school's power-mad directors from using adolescent clones to take over the world. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Skeleton KeyTwice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Eagle StrikeTeen spy Alex Rider survives a bullfight, a high-speed bicycle chase through Amsterdam, and even being the target in a human video-game, only to face his most disturbing challenge yet: when the best of intentions are driven by insanity, how do you reason with a madman? |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Scorpia: An Alex Rider AdventureAfter being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The WreckersShipwrecked 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 English coastal town where they are stranded. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The SmugglersIn eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The BuccaneersCarrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his crew of the Dragon set off for waters few of them have sailed before. So when they come upon a lifeboat adrift at sea, some are wary of the sailor aboard. Now John starts to believe his father's warnings, especially after he becomes stranded on an island reputed to have buried treasure. A place teeming with buccaneers! |
| YA MCCAUGHREAN |
The Kite RiderIn thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. |
| YA MCCAUGHR |
The Pirate's SonLeft penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past. |
| YA NAPOLI |
Stones In WaterAfter 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. |
| YA PAULSEN |
Hatchet: A NovelAfter a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
| YA PAUL |
The RiverTwo years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but a small hatchet. Yet he survived. Now the government wants him to do it again -- to go back into the wilderness so that astronauts and the military can learn the survival techniques that kept Brian alive. |
| YA PAU |
Brian's WinterIn Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian's Winter begins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian is not rescued, but must build on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy--a northern winter. |
| YA PAULSEN |
Brian's ReturnAfter having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs. |
| YA PAULSEN |
Brian's HuntWhen Brian finds a wounded dog one night, he sets out to find his Cree friends to learn what happened. |
| YA WULFFSON |
Soldier XAs World War II rages, sixteen-year-old Erik Brandt finds himself on a train traveling to Russia. He's one of the hundreds of thousands of German boys being sent to the Eastern Front by Hitler--since no men are left to fight. Trained as an interpreter and not a soldier, Erik manages to survive the combat, but only by slipping into a dead enemy's uniform, and posing as a wounded Russian. Now the young German must keep up his charade. |
| JUV 92 PAULSEN |
How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales of Extreme SportsAuthor Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel. Don't try these stunts at home! |
