Spradlin, Michael P.
Summary: In 1945 twelve-year-old Patrick and his younger brother Teddy stowaway on the U.S.S. Indianapolis in a desperate attempt to get back to the Philippines where they last saw their parents, just before the Japanese invasion--but when the ship is sunk they find themselves clinging to a piece of debris without food or water, and with hungry sharks circling below.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPRReina, Miquel
Summary: "Harold y Mary Rose Grapes son un matrimonio que, tras la trágica muerte de su hijo, dejó a un lado sus sueños de juventud y se resignó a vivir en una isla remota, alejados de todo. Sin embargo, el destino les vuelve a poner a prueba: deben abandonar su hogar de una manera que nunca habrían imaginado, por un problema de delimitación de costas. La noche antes de ser desahuciados, mientras...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Espasa 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC REIBodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters, but the real terror begins when the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BODGaige, Amity
Summary: "Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GaigeO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRGolding, William
Summary: The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GOLLynch, Paul
Summary: "The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fingerprint! Publishing, 0000
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002