Showing posts with label Survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Survival. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Desert Angel by Charlie Price

Desert Angel by Charlie Price
Farrar Strauss Giroux
2011
236p.s



In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.

Monday, August 15, 2011

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Scholastic Press
2011
287p.

Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Scholastic Press
2011
396p.


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.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Enclave (aka Razorland) by Ann Aguirre

Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Feiwel and Friends
2011
262p.


In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Philomel Books
2011
344p.


In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Small As An Elephant by Jennifer Jacobson

Small As An Elephant by Jennifer Jacobson
Candlewick Press
2011
275p.

Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.

Monday, July 25, 2011

A Dog’s Way Home by Bobbie Pyron

dogsA Dog’s Way Home by Bobbie Pyron

Katherine Tegen Books

2011

321p.

After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Charlesbridge
2010
272 pgs.

Summary
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.

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Little, Brown
2010
217 pgs.

Summary
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.