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Shipwreck Island
S A Bodeen - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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After Sarah's dad remarries, he and her stepmom decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. |
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Storm Runners (The Storm Runners Trilogy, Book 1)
Roland Smith - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Book one in Roland Smiths middle-grade action-adventure series--now in paperback!Chase Masters and his father are "storm runners," racing across the country in pursuit of hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Anywhere bad weather strikes, they are not far behind. Chase is learning... |
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Earthquake Terror
Peg Kehret - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Book
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After twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer's mother breaks her ankle on a family camping trip, Jonathan and his partially paralyzed younger sister Abby are left alone on a deserted island off of northern California. Then a devastating earthquake hits, and suddenly, Jonathan and Abby are fighting... |
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Leepike Ridge
N. D. Wilson - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Before he wrote the bestselling 100 Cupboards trilogy and Ashtown Burials series, N. D. Wilson delighted readers with his first unforgettable action-adventure story of survival. . . . Thomas Hammond has always lived next to Leepike Ridge, but he never imagined he might end up lost... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared - and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read.. Thirteen-year-old... |
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survive-o-pedia
David Borgenicht - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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It's the best of the worst! This hardcover, full-color edition of the popular series loved by parents and kids alike serves up a wild ride through mudslides, volcanos, shark-infested oceans, menacing mountains, and more. Seventy entries are packed with illuminating facts, eye-popping photos,... |
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Killer Species #1: Menace From the Deep
Michael P. Spradlin - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A brand-new action-packed series from Michael P. Spradlin. Each book covers a genetically engineered super predator wreaking havoc on the environment.Emmet Doyle is not in the best mood when he arrives in Florida City. His father is a wildlife biologist, and has been summoned to the Everglades,... |
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The Discovery (Dive, Book 1)
Gordon Korman - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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Sharks, shipwreck, and sunken treasure in the latest adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman.Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving to explore an underwater habitat that's just been altered by a seismic event. What they find, though, is much more than fish - it's sunken... |
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Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony-fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah, taken away by a man who had no right to take her.Joseph can sure enough get her back,... |
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The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The debut of a phenomenal new middle-grade talent.In all the ways that matter, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day.But in one important way, Mark... |
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Blizzard!
Jake Maddox - Stone Arch Books
Format: Library Binding
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They were supposed to be attending a volunteer dinner in their honor, but instead, Owen and Gray have been stranded in the middle of a raging blizzard. Once the storm subsides, the boys decide to try to find their way back to civilization. But with no food or water, freezing temperatures,... |
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Hard-As-Nails Warriors (Hard as Nails in History)
Tracey Turner - Crabtree Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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From conquering medieval kings to brilliant Roman generals, find out how the brainy and brawny cast of real-life warriors from ancient times measure up against each other. Full-color comic illustrations are splashed throughout the witty, bite-sized chunks of fact-filled text. |
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10 True Tales: Heroes of 9/11
Allan Zullo - Scholastic Nonfiction
Format: Paperback
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Ten true stories of real-life heroes during the attacks on 9/11!When Captain Jay Jonas of the Fire Department of New York hears an emergency radio message about the World Trade Center, he has no idea of the terrible conditions he and his team will face. Arriving at the burning building,... |
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Refugee
ALAN GRATZ - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Trapped on the Rock: Can Science Save Your Life?
Gerry Bailey - Crabtree Pub Co
Format: Library Binding
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Separated from his science team on a mountain after a landslide, Joe is in no hurry to get back. The slide has carried a wealth of fossils with it for him to study! Joe examines these and the mountain terrain to learn how the mountains formed and figure out how old they are. |
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Trapped by the Ice!: Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure
Michael McCurdy - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance, was finally crushed and Shackleton and his men made the very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited... |
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My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew. |
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