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Pon, Cindy

Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017

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Gratz, Alan

Summary: 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, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

Monninger, Joseph.

Summary: When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014

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Eliopulos, Nick

Summary: "Emmy and Birch look for their tame wolf, Byte, in Minecraft's mysterious and dangerous Nether"--Back cover

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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Thomson, Sarah L.

Summary: During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Gratz, Alan

Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GRA

Falkner, Brian

Summary: In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAL

Dashner, James

Summary: In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Media Enterprises 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Burt, Jake

Summary: "Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUR

Oxtra, Cristina

Summary: While vacationing in Thailand for the holidays, Tara and her mother are thrown into survival mode when a massive tsunami sweeps through Phuket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OXT

Troupe, Thomas Kingsley

Summary: "Cam glances out the window of his Hawaii hotel room just in time to see the nearby 'inactive' volcano explode! Chunks of rock and lava cascade down into the city. Cam knows he needs to find his family and get out fast, but a river of lava runs between him and his loved ones"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TRO

Huddleston, Tom

Summary: When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them - and to discover hope for the future. Milo and Lina trace their latest clue to a remote jungle world where a terrifying beast lies in wait.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J SWaws 2

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUD

Van Dusen, Chris

Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Van

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Cummings, Lindsay

Summary: Wrongly accused of her brother's murder, Sonara's destiny was to die, sentenced to execution by her own mother. Punished and left for dead, the shadows have cursed her with a second life as a Shadowblood, cast out and hunted by society for her demon-like powers. Now known as the Devil of the Deadlands, Sonara survives as a thief on the edge of society, fighting for survival on a quest to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUM

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2016

Yancey, Richard

Summary: Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds people together is gone. Cassie and her friends haven't seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YAN

Paulsen, Gary

Summary: Haunted by his parents' divorce and the secret that caused it, young Brian Robeson, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, must draw on untested skills and strength to survive.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1992

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD J PAU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PAU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PAU

Key, Watt

Summary: Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEY

Thompson, Lisa (Lisa Anne)

Summary: Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION THO

Yancey, Richard

Summary: The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselves. In...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YAN

Johnson, Terry Lynn

Summary: Eleven-year-old Travis and twelve-year-old Marina, separated from their families after being thrown into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington, battle hypothermia as they struggle to survive. Includes Coast Guard-approved cold-water survival tips.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JOH

deVos, Kelly

Summary: Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEV

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEV

Smith-Llera, Danielle

Summary: In the distant future, when alien Hunters, masters of camouflage, terrorize humans, Rio and his friend Ani are separated from their parents while trying to leave Humanhattan for the government Fortress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LLE

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