jA
Anderson
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*Fever, 1793
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen year old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, copes with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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jB
Baillie
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Adrift
Flynn and his little sister, Sally, playing pirates in an old crate found along the Australian coast, are quickly swept out to sea.
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jB
Blackwood
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Wild Timothy
Thirteen-year-old Timothy reluctantly accompanies his father on a camping trip, becomes lost and must survive on his own.
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jB
Bledsoe
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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.
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jpb
(Duey)
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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
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Fox
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*Monkey Island
Forced to live on the streets of New York, 11-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.
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jG
Giff
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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.
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jG
Goodman
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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.
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JG
Greer
and jpb
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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.
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jH
Heneghan
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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.
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jH
Hill
and jpb
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Toughboy and Sister
A young brother and sister, stranded in a remote Yukon cabin, cope with dwindling food and hostile wildlife.
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jH
Hobbs
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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.
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jH
Hyland
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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.
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jK
Keehn
and jpb
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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.
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jK
Kehret
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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.
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jpb
(Kehret)
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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.
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jM
Moeri
and jpb
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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.
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jM
Morey
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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.
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jpb
(Morrow)
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*On to Oregon
Thirteen-year-old John Sager is solely responsible for bringing his family from Missouri to Oregon in 1844.
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jN
Napoli
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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.
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jO
Oldham
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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.
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jO
Orlev
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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.
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jO
Orr
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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.
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jO
Osborne
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*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.
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jP
Park
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*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
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jP
Paulsen
and jpb
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*The Haymeadow
Fourteen-year-old John gains self-reliance during a summer spent in the Wyoming mountains tending six thousand sheep.
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jP
Paulsen
and jpb
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*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.
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jP
Philbrick
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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.
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jS
Shahan
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Frozen Stiff
Cousins Cody and Derek take a kayak trip in Alaska and find themselves battling the raw elements of an untamed wilderness.
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jS
Steig
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*Abel's Island
As a castaway on an uninhabited island, a civilized mouse struggles to survive and return home.
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jS
Steiner
and jpb
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Ghost Cave
As they search for an Indian burial site, Marc and two friends become lost in a cave inhabited by a ghost.
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jS
Strasser
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Gator Prey
After a plane crash in the swampy Everglades, two spunky teenagers help their parents survive alligators, mosquitoes, quicksand, and worse.
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jT
Taylor
and jpb
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*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.
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jT
Taylor
and jpb
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*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.
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jW
Wallace
and jpb
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Danger in Quicksand Swamp
Alligators, quicksand and a murderer are the dangers Ben and Jake must battle in their search for buried treasure.
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jW
Willis
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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.
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jW
Wisler
and jpb
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Red Cap
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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