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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"15-year-old Zeke is thrilled to be heading west with over eighty settlers on the famed Oregon Trail. But when their wagon train takes an ill-advised short cut, the pioneers find themselves trapped in a frozen mountain pass. As howling winter storms rage around the Donner Party, there’s no way forward or back. Faced with starvation, Zeke must attempt to walk out of the wilderness on sheer willpower alone. Can he ever hope to make it to California?...
203) Bonita
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Bonita, a saddle horse belonging to a wealthy San Antonio family, loses her comfortable home following the siege of the Alamo, and must escape into the wilderness to survive on her own with only the help of Paco, a burro, and a wild stallion.
204) Wildfire
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Teenaged best friends Annie and Pete go on a backpacking trip in the Pacific Northwest, with dangerous consequences.
205) Catch your death
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Series
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Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius - there's nothing average about her. Only this time it is an adventure in the wild, and it will take all Ruby's got just to survive. This time, tigers are roaming the streets of Twinford, and it looks like someone has deliberately released some very rare and very dangerous animals. Things are going to get wild - and Ruby is going to get badly lost in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Mr. Pants really wants to be a Rugged Ranger-or so he thinks. Shooting bows and arrows sounds like tons of fun, but hiking and camping? Not so much. His sister Foot Foot, on the other hand, cant wait to test out her wilderness skills. Theres just one problem: Girls arent allowed to join the Rangers!
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Description
How to do almost anything in one handy little book! Want to be known for your unique style? Inside you'll learn how to design your own clothes, do the perfect manicure, or make your own lip gloss. Feel like impressing your friends? Show them how you can make a crystal, juggle one-handed, or deal with a bully. Bored and need something to do? Not anymore when you find out how to keep a secret diary, make a scrapbook, or put together a dance routine....
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
Author
Series
Girl Who Dared to Think volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left. The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully. Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband--a rating out of ten, awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower and monitored by a device in her skull. A device which reports forbidden thoughts....
211) Off trail
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Daniel grew up in the shadow of his older sister, the brash, self-assured, and utterly reckless Jackie, now living with her dirtbag boyfriend and wandering through dead-end jobs. When his parents find her marijuana stash in his closet and decide they do not want him to turn out like his sister, Daniel suffers the “trickle-down parenting” effect and is sent to Quest Trail. Surrounded by other similarly uprooted teens, Daniel endures a series of...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
""I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, narrator of Lucy Jane Bledsoe's newest novel. And Christine and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, is buried in her work and cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart, Mark, has an outwardly perfect life, but her fierce control is beginning to falter....
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Lost in the Barrens: A canoe accident leaves two teenage boys lost in one of Canada's most desolate regions. Their only chance for survival is to work as a team.
Rugged gold: Martha, a widowed socialite raising her son Lloyd, finds love again with Don, a rugged outdoorsman who convinces her to move north. When Lloyd and Don go missing during a dangerous earthquake, Martha is forced to endure an Alaskan winter on her own.
Pony express rider: A young...
214) Lost time
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Evie didn’t mean to get lost -- especially in the Cretaceous period! Now she’s alone, without her parents or anyone else to turn to for help. That is until she rescues a baby pterosaur and raises it on her own. As the baby grows into a giraffe-sized flying reptile, which Evie names Ada, the two manage to to find a way to survive in the prehistoric wilderness. But Evie will have to risk everything when she makes a discovery that...