Survive At All Costs!
Survival Stories For Teens
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Survive At All Costs! |
| Cole, Brock | The Goats (1987) Two misfits find inner strength and self-knowledge when they are cruelly marooned on an island by fellow campers. |
| Cooney, Caroline | Flash Fire (1995) Teens work together to save themselves when they are trapped in a Los Angeles canyon raging with fire. |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | Wilderness Peril (1985) Two teens find money hidden by a hijacker and soon discover they are being trailed by him. |
| Evans, Michael Robert | 68 Knots (2007) A group of teens on a summer leadership program on a sailing ship have to survive without money or supplies after the counselors bail out. |
| Flight | Static (2006) A plane crash on a deserted island forces a group of teens to bury their petty jealousies and cooperate in order to survive. First in Flight #29 Down series. |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies (1954) The classic story of a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on a tropical island and attempt to forge their own society. |
| Herlong, Madaline | The Great Wide Sea (2008) Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure. |
| Hobbs, Will | Downriver (1991) Teen members of a wilderness survival school abandon their adult leader and attempt to run the white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. |
| Hobbs, Will | Far North (1996) Two teens must survive a harsh winter in the Northwest Territories after their floatplane is destroyed. |
| Hokenson, Terry | The Winter Road (2006) 17 year old Willa, decides to fly a small plane to fetch her mother from Northern Ontario, but when she crashes she is all alone in the snowy wilderness. |
| Lawrence, Iain | The Cannibals (2005) Juvenile criminals escape the ship taking them to Australia and head for a Pacific island where they face headhunters and cannibals. |
| Lewis, Richard | The Killing Sea (2007) Two teens work together to find missing family and seek medical help after a 2004 tsunami in Sumatra. |
| Marsden, John | Tomorrow, When the War Began (1995) Seven Australian teens return from a camping trip to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. First in a series. |
| Mazer, Harry | Snowbound (1973) Two teenagers must fight for survival after being trapped in a desolate area by a blizzard. |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | White Darkness (2007) Taken to Antarctica by her uncle for a vacation, Symone discovers that he is obsessed with seeking Symme’s Hole, an entryway to the center of the Earth. |
| Monninger, Joseph | Hippie Chick (2008) After her sailboat capsizes, 15 year old Lolly is rescued by manatees and forms a bond with her aquatic companions while struggling to survive. |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet (1987) Brian survives a plane crash but then must fend for himself in the hostile Canadian wilderness. The first of five in the Brian Robeson series. |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Nation (2008) After the destruction of a devastating tsunami, a small band of refugees set about rebuilding their community. |
| Smelcer, John E. | The Trap (2006) Johnny, who is better known for brains than brawn, needs to find his missing grandfather who is caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter. |
| Smith, Roland | Peak (2007) A 14 year old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. |
| Taylor, Theodore | Sniper (1991) A 15-year-old boy who is running an animal preserve while his parents are away discovers a sniper is loose and killing the big cats. |
| Trueman, Terry | Hurricane (2008) A fictional account of one of the worst storms to hit the Caribbean, Hurricane Mitch in 1998, told from the perspective of a 13 year old boy in Honduras. |
| Ure, Jean | Plague (1991) Three teen must survive on their own when a devasting plague sweeps London. |
July 2009