Adventure and Survival |
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 | Andrew Smith |
| The Marbury Lens |
| After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where Connor is trying to kill him. |
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 | Chris Wooding |
| Storm Thief |
| With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants. |
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 | Christopher Golden |
| The Wild |
| Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon’s gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him. |
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 | Diane Wilson |
| Raven Speak |
| In 854, the bold fourteen-year-old daughter of a Viking chieftain, aided by her old and thin but equally intrepid horse and an ancient, one-eyed seer, must find a way to keep her clan together and save them from starvation. |
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 | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| The White Darkness |
| Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme’s Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. |
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 | Jeff Hirsch |
| The Eleventh Plague |
| Twenty years after the Collapse began, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his father decides to save two strangers, Stephen’s life is turned upside down. |
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 | John Marsden |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began |
| Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must decide to hide.. or fight. |
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 | Libba Bray |
| Beauty Queens |
| When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive... and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. |
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 | Maurice Gee |
| Salt |
| Hari and Pearl, from opposite ends of society, forge an unusual alliance as they undertake a desperate pilgrimage to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings. |
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 | Michael Northrop |
| Trapped |
| Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that leaves them wondering if they will survive. |
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 | Mike Mullin |
| Ashfall |
| After the eruption of a supervolcano that destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished. |
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 | S.A. Bodeen |
| The Compound |
| Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. Eli’s father built it to keep them safe. Now, they can’t get out. |
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 | Susan Beth Pfeffer |
| Life as We Knew It |
| Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. |
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 | Terry Pratchett |
| Nation |
| After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, set about rebuilding their community. |
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