Bockoven, Mike
Summary: "FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GOLMaddox, Jake
Summary: Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders who has already won a scholarship to attend the Alaska Young Explorers program and learn explorer skills in an Alaskan wilderness camp; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5000 dollars--money that Nita's family could really use--but on the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADGolding, 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 GOLAllen, Samantha
Summary: When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and of course, the salacious drama that viewers nationwide tune in to eagerly devour. Each woman came on "The Catch" for her own reasons--brand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2022
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Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CenterCrowder, Melanie
Summary: Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, nineteen-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CROCorlett, Anne
Summary: "All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit ... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORFoster, Fiona King
Summary: "In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Foster 2021Scott, Victoria
Summary: Tella's brother Cody is sick and getting worse, so when she finds instructions on how to become a contender in the dangerous Brimstone Bleed race where she can win a cure for him, she jumps at the chance--but there is no guarantee that she will win, or even survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCOHughes, Dean
Summary: Hadi and Malek, two thirteen-year-old Syrian children living in Beirut, struggle to provide for their families in a country that can be hostile against refugees like them, but they maintain hope that there is a way out of their seemingly impossible situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUGGolding, William
Summary: Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOLPaulsen, Gary
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016