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Summary: Features Bear Grylls, who draws on his experiences as a soldier, mountaineer, and seasoned adventurer to demonstrate life-saving survival skills and techniques in some of the toughest, most treacherous environments on Earth. Shows how Bear is stranded in wilderness destinations with few supplies and is challenged to make his way back to civilization. Looks at how Bear faces sweltering desert...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAN

Long, David

Summary: A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 LON

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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Koonoo, Brian

Summary: "In this harrowing survival story, Brian Koonoo takes off on a hunting trip in Canada's Arctic. After his snowmobile breaks down, his GPS loses signal, and his camping fuel runs low, Brian is left alone to survive for seven days. He experiences close encounters with planes, blizzards, and hunger, all while much of his gear is lost, and walking 60 kilometres in search of safety. He uses the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KOO

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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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
1 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

Vukovic, Diane

Summary: "Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature!Knowing how to build a safe shelter in any environment is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that a shelter can be made from sticks and leaves? Or that it can even be made from snow? Learn all this and more in Shelter - a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore.ABOUT THE SERIES:Learning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 VUK

Vukovic, Diane

Summary: "A new installment in the A True Book series focusing on Survival Skills"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 VUK

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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

Jolley, Dan

Summary: 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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012

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Shusterman, Neal

Summary: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone in the hunt for water. And that's when her parents go missing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHU

Cawthon, Scott

Summary: "Frustrated by an unfair arcade game, Colton throws himself into re-engineering the device at any cost. Mott quickly flushes his brother's creepy new pets down the drain, but the creatures have other plans. Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoying friend at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But when it comes to Five Nights at Freddy's, even the most ordinary seeming actions...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024

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Nesbet, Anne

Summary: "During a hiking trip with their parents in the mountains of California, cousins Owen, Vivian, and Amy are finally allowed to camp for one night at a little lake all on their own. But when a massive earthquake blocks their return path, there's only one way home: the long way around, through a wilderness filled with fierce animals, raging rivers, unstable weather, and high passes. The hardest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

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

Wyss, Johann David

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fingerprint! Publishing,  0000

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

Cawthon, Scott

Summary: "It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix Media, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FIV

Shusterman, Neal

Summary: "Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC SHU

Center, Katherine

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEN

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

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPR

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Summary: After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRE

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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Summary: Stories about human beings fighting to stay alive. The people in these stories find themselves in nightmarish circumstances - cut off from civilization, often starving or dying of thirst - and have to struggle to survive. Many of them confront the prospect of resorting to eating thier companions - or being eaten themselves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 SUR

Dowswell, Paul.

Summary: From shark attacks and blazing airships to exploding spacecraft and sinking submarines, this is a collection of real stories of people who have stared death in the face and lived to tell the tale.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2002

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

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