These books are located in the fiction area of the children’s department. They are shelved by the author’s last name.

 

Burgess: Copper Treasure   2000 104 p.

In nineteenth century London, three young boys try to retrieve a treasure from the bottom of the Thames River.

 

Couloumbis: Misadventures of Maude March 2005 295p

After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin a series of adventures.

 

Crisp: White Star: A Dog on the Titanic 2006 150p.

2008 Nutmeg Award nominee

Imagine you are lucky enough to be on the cruise of a lifetime. While on the trip, you explore the ship, meet a wonderful, heroic dog, and end up fighting for your life.

 

Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Adaptation of the classic tale of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island.

 

Dumas: Man in the Iron Mask   128p.

A simple retelling of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with a mysterious, masked prisoner.

 

Fardell: 7 Professors of the Far North   2004  217p.

2008 Nutmeg Award nominee

Eleven-year-old Sam and his new friends Ben and Zara set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner. (also: Flight of the Silver Turtle)     

 

George: Tree Castle Island  2002  242p.

After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins has an accident that tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery.

 

George:  Julie of the Wolves  1972  170p.

A thirteen-year-old Inuit girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

(Also: Julie’s Wolf Pack)

 

Giff: Nory Ryan’s Song  2000 148p.

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.

 

Gutman: Getting Air  2007 232p.

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.

 

Hahn: Hear the Wind Blow  2003  212p.

With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War. 

 

Hausman: Tom Cringle: Battle on the High Seas  2000

During the War of 1812, a thirteen-year-old officer in the British navy records in his logbook his capture by pirates off the coast of Jamaica.

 

Hobbs: Wild Man Island  2002  184p.

A storm strands fourteen-year-old Andy on an Alaskan island. (see also other books by Hobbs)

 

Hopkinson: Into the Firestorm  2006 200p.

Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray must survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires.

 

Kehret: Escaping the Giant Wave  2004 151p.

2008 Nutmeg Award nominee

A dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare for Kyle and his family. Kyle will have to use his wits if he and his sister are to survive an earthquake, a tsunami, and a hotel fire. (see also other books by Kehret)

 

Lawler: Dead Reckoning  2005 254p.

Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the Golden Hind on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

 

Lawrence: The Wreckers  1998  196p.

Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself .

(also:  The Smugglers; The Bucaneers)  

 

London: The Call of  the Wild  1903  126p.

The story of Buck, a dog that is stolen from its family and forced into the harsh life of an artic sled-dog.

 

Morpugo: Kensuke’s Kingdom 2003 164p.

2007 Nutmeg Award nominee

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.

 

Myers: Stolen by the Sea  2002  121p.

In Galveston, Texas, a rich twelve-year-old girl and an orphaned  fourteen-year-old boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible hurricane of 1900.

 

Neale: Himalaya  2004  153p.

Twelve-year-old Orrie and her older brother tell the story of a doomed mountain-climbing expedition in which they and their family attempt to climb Island Peak in Nepal.

 

O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins  1960  184p.

An Indian girl is left to survive alone on an isolated island off the California coast.

 

Paulsen:  The Voyage of  the Frog  1988  141p.

When David goes out on his sailboat, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own.

(see also others by Paulsen)

 

Rossell: Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse 2006 166p.

Jack learns to his dismay that he is next in line to inherit the Pirate Curse and is fated to spend his life running from a vengeful band of pirates.

 

Rubalcaba: The Wadjet Eye  2000 156p.

After his mother dies, Damon makes a perilous journey to Spain to locate his father who is serving in the Roman army led by Julius Caesar. Set in Egypt in the year 45.B.C.

 

Sedgwick:  Floodland  2001  148p.

After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.

 

Shahan:  Frozen Stiff  1998  151p.

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

 

Speare: The Sign Of the Beaver  1983  135p.

A boy alone in his family's 18^th century wilderness home is able to survive with the help of a local Indian tribe.

 

Sperry: Call It Courage  1940  95p.

The story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and

proves his courage to himself and his tribe. 

 

Stevenson: Treasure Island  1911  251p.

An innkeeper and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.

 

Torrey:  Voyage of Ice  2004  197p.

In 1849, fifteen-year-old Nick and his older brother sign on as hands on the whaling ship Sea Hawk, and find that the journey is full of hardship and unexpected dangers.

 

Williams: Titanic Crossing  1995  167p.

In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert and his family are passengers on the ill-fated Titanic.

 

Wyss: The Swiss Family Robinson.  1812  377p.

Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family who create their own island world.

 

 

 SERIES:

 

Choose:  Choose Your Own Adventure”

 (gr. 4-5)  100p.

You create the story: each chapter allows you to choose what will happen next.

 

Duey: “Survival!” (grades 4-6)  160p.

Would you have the courage and determination to face such disasters as a blizzard, earthquake, fire or more?

 

Kidd: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow” (grades 3-6) 122p.

Depicts the early life of the character from the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

 

Korman:  “Everest” (grades 3-6) 137p.

They come from all across America to be the youngest kid ever to climb Everest. But only one will reach the top first.

 

Korman: “Island” (grades 3-6)  140p.

Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.

 

Korman: “On the Run” (grades 4-7) 160p.

Aiden and Meg Falconer have been all across country, looking for the man who framed their parents and sent them off to life in prison.

 

Paulsen: “World Of Adventure” (grades 3-5)  55p.

 

Stewart: “Far-Flung Adventures” (gr. 3-5) 225p.

Pirates, menacing clowns, yeti and more in these wacky adventures.

 

Strasser: “Against the Odds” (grades 4-5)  130p.

Lost in the desert; stranded in the Everglades; facing down a grizzly-  the odds are against these kids! 

 

Yolen: “Young Heroes”  (grades 4-7) 250p

Exciting tales imagining the younger years of legendary Greek heroes and heroines.