Survival Stories (YA)

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.

After her grandpa got sick half a world away, Hallie Jacob's parents yanked her to Colorado the last semester of her senior year. Career-wise, she has specialized in fighting fire, and now she is surrounded by ice, snow, and a thousand cousins she's half-banned from hanging around with. On one big family weekend in the freaking tundra, Hallie sneaks off with those cousins to an abandoned ski slope. Caught in a random mudslide, what started as a Secret...

In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

"A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout"--

"Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet"--

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen- year old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.