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Alexander, Lloyd | Westmark |
Falling in with a roguish doctor, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, a boy fleeing criminal charges embarks on adventure in the kingdom of Westmark. |
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Arnosky, Jim | Pirates of Crocodile Swamp |
Kidnapped by their father, two boys escape into the mangrove swamps of Key Largo, Florida, where they learn to live on their own among wildlife. |
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Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Charlotte finds herself to be the only female on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, among a rebellious crew and under a murderous captain. |
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Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Tracks in the Snow |
Two girls searching for friends find themselves in danger when a blizzard hits. |
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Bruchac, Joseph | Skeleton Man |
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care
of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life. |
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DuPrau, Jeanne | City of Ember |
12-year-olds Lina and Dean must decipher an old, mostly ruined, map that holds the key to saving their beloved but decaying city - and it may lead them out of their dark world into Unkown Lands beyong the city's walls. |
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Enright, Elizabeth | Gone-Away Lake |
Two cousins discover a ghost town on the far side of a swamp. |
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Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster |
In an 11 year old African girl’s efforts to escape marriage to a cruel man she embarks on a terrifying journey. |
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Fox, Paula | Monkey Island |
A boy braves dangerous streets of New York in search of his parents. |
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Funke, Cornelia | The Thief Lord |
Two orphan brothers runaway for fear of being separated by adoption. |
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George, Jean Craighead | Julie series |
Follow the adventures of an Eskimo girl who runs away from an unhappy home and befriends a pack of wolves. |
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George, Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain
Far Side of the Mountain
Frightful’s Mountain |
Join Sam Gribley on his adventures living in the wilderness of the mountains. |
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Gutman, Dan | Getting Air |
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives. |
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Haddix,Margaret Peterson | Running Out of Time |
Children are dying in an isolated historical village that turns out to be a modern scientific experiment and a 13 year old girl is determined to save them. |
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Horowitz, Anthony (YA) | Alex Rider (series) |
Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is a spy for the British M16 and works to uncover the plot of a maniacal man. |
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Korman, Gordan | Shipwreck (The Island trilogy) |
Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa are all forced to live and work together on a ship under the guidance of a horrible captain, and they thought that was the worst of it — until they wind up on a sunken ship, lost at sea, and they must find a way to survive. |
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Morpergo, 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. |
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Myers, Walter Dean | Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner |
Artemis wants to avenge the death of his uncle and hopes to find his uncle’s lost gold mine. |
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O’Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
A young Native American is left to survive for 18 years all alone on a beautiful but isolated island when her entire tribe leaves and never comes back for her. |
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Paulsen, Gary |
Hatchet
Brian’s Winter
The River
Brian’s Return |
Follow Brian’s adventure after a plane crashes in the deep woods and he must survive. |
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Paulsen, Gary | The Foxman |
Two cousins lost in the woods find an empty cabin and meet the mysterious Foxman. |
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Petersen, P.J. | White Water |
When his father is bitten by a rattlesnake on a rafting trip, Greg must take charge. |
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Petersen, P.J. | Wild River |
Considered lazy and unathletic, 12 year old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horrible awry. |
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Shahan, Sherry | Death Mountain |
Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and struggle to survive. |
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Smith, Roland | Peak |
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest boy to reach the top of Mount Everest. |
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Smith, Roland | I,Q series |
Step siblings Q and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother -- a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? |
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Stewart, Trenton Lee | The Mysterious Benedict Society series |
After passing a series of mind bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute and stop a headmaster from taking over everyone's minds and eventually - the world. |
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Taylor, Theodore | Ice Drift |
Two Inuit boys find themselves stranded on an ice floe in the Arctic and must fend for themselves for months. |
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Turner, Megan Whalen | The Thief |
Gen, a skillful thief, relishes his adventure to a remote temple where he plans to steal a precious stone. |
summaries copied or adapted from WLS catalog
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