Survival!

Anderson

Fever, 1793

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen year old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, copes with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Baillie

Adrift

Flynn and his little sister, Sally, playing pirates in an old crate found along the Australian coast, are quickly swept out to sea.

Blackwood

Wild Timothy

Thirteen-year-old Timothy reluctantly accompanies his father on a camping trip, becomes lost and must survive on his own.

Bledsoe

Tracks in the Snow

Erin and her science project partner Tiffany become lost in the snow-covered Sierra mountains when Erin leads them on a trek to find her missing babysitter.

Duey

Willow Chase: Kansas Territory, 1847

Willow, already facing her mother's remarriage and a difficult journey west, is swept overboard while crossing a river and has to survive on her and find her way back to her family.

Two other paperback Duey books in the series called SURVIVAL!

They are:

Blizzard: Estes Park, Colorado 1886

Earthquake: San Francisco, 1906

Fox

Monkey Island

Forced to live on the streets of New York, 11-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.

Giff

Nory Ryan's Song

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.

Goodman

Hope's Crossing

During the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope is seized by Tories, enslaved in a Tory household, and must use all of her resources to escape and make her way home.

Greer

This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us

Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover two girls already in residence.

Heneghan

Wish Me Luck

While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, 12-year old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.

Hill

Toughboy and Sister

A young brother and sister, stranded in a remote Yukon cabin, cope with dwindling food and hostile wildlife.

Hobbs

Far North

After the destruction of their floatplane, 16-year old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the Northwest Territory.

Hyland

The Wreck of the Ethie

Fictionalized account of the wreck of the steamship Ethie which occurred on the remote western coast of Newfoundland in December 1919 and in which the dog Skipper proved his heroism.

Keehn

I am Regina

In 1755, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped by Native Americans, forced to learn an alien way of life, yet struggles to hold onto memories of her earlier life.

Kehret

Earthquake Terror

When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, Jonathan must find a way to keep himself and his partially paralyzed younger sister alive until help arrives.

Kehret

Night of Fear

Thirteen-year old T.J. and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, find their lives in danger when they discover a disturbed arsonist hiding in a barn.

Moeri

Save Queen of Sheba

As sole survivors of a Sioux Indian raid, a young brother and sister with few provisions continue on the trail to Oregon to find the rest of the settlers.

Morey

Canyon Winter

Following an airplane crash, a 15-year-old boy is stranded in the Rocky Mountains and learns the way of the wilderness from an old hermit who takes him in.

Morrow

On to Oregon

Thirteen-year-old John Sager is solely responsible for bringing his family from Missouri to Oregon in 1844.

Napoli

Stones in Water

Roberto is taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater and is forced to work in Germany, then escapes into the Ukrainian winter and desperately tries to make his way home to Venice.

Oldham

Found

Because her mother cannot afford to keep her, Ren tries to survive along with other homeless persons who are united in their determination to care for an abandoned baby.

Orlev

The Island on Bird Street

During WWII an 11-year-old Jewish boy is left on his own in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Orr

Nim's Island

Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.

Osborne

Adaline Falling Star

Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father (Kit Carson), Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness.

Park

A Single Shard

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself

Paulsen

The Haymeadow

Fourteen-year-old John gains self-reliance during a summer spent in the Wyoming mountains tending six thousand sheep.

Paulsen

Brian's Winter

If you enjoyed reading Hatchet, you will enjoy this story which portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness.

Philbrick

The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party Expedition

Douglas Deeds is a member of the ill-fated Donner Party which became stranded in the mountains in the winter of 1846-47.

Shahan

Frozen Stiff

Cousins Cody and Derek take a kayak trip in Alaska and find themselves battling the raw elements of an untamed wilderness.

Steig

Abel's Island

As a castaway on an uninhabited island, a civilized mouse struggles to survive and return home.

Steiner

Ghost Cave

As they search for an Indian burial site, Marc and two friends become lost in a cave inhabited by a ghost.

Strasser

Gator Prey

After a plane crash in the swampy Everglades, two spunky teenagers help their parents survive alligators, mosquitoes, quicksand, and worse.

Taylor

The Cay

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German sub during WWII, a 12-year-old boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean.

Taylor

Timothy of the Cay

A “prequel/sequel” to The Cay, shows Timothy's life as it leads up to the wreck and island survival and shows Phillip's life after the rescue and his eventual return to the cay.

Wallace

Danger in Quicksand Swamp

Alligators, quicksand and a murderer are the dangers Ben and Jake must battle in their search for buried treasure.

Willis

Danger Along the Ohio

Twelve-year old Clare and her two brothers are lost in the wilderness of the Ohio River Valley in 1793 and try to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

Wisler

Red Cap

A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.