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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
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English
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"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...
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English
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
5) The river
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
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Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Language
English
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Traces the fateful period after the Earth is decimated by catastrophic solar flares and reveals the stories behind the formation of WICKED, the construction of the Glade, and Thomas' entry into the Maze.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
10) Ice dogs
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English
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In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
11) Fever, 1793
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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August 1793. Fourteen-year-ole Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. Then tragedy strikes her home and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important--the fight to stay alive.
12) The raging storm
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 6
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"As StarClan warns of an oncoming storm, the five warrior Clans by the lake must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to make a permanent home among them for SkyClan"--
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
14) The Breadwinner
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Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
15) Save Rafe!
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Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--
16) The underneath
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
17) Northwind
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
19) Tucket's home
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way West to the Oregon Trail where they hope to find the Tucket family.
20) Dog driven
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
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