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Adventure & Survival titles and authors from our Juvenile collection. Check the annotations for a summary of the book, series information where applicable and/or additional titles by the author.

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  • When twelve-year-old Wendy gets lost while on a hike in Joshua Tree National Park, she must use her wits and knowledge of the Mojave Desert to survive.
    Book, 2025North Mankato, MN : Stone Arch Books, 2025. — J FICTION WILDERNE Collins Ailynn 2/2025
  • One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story--in fact, seven stories in all, each to be told in its proper order.
    Book, 2024Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024. — J SCIFI DiCamill Kate 10/2024
  • Marlo does not know why her best friend Amos suddenly turned against her, but it makes the canoe trip their parents have arranged difficult--especially when a wrong turn sends them over a waterfall, and the two of them and the dog Cheerio are…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2024. — J FICTION Hashimot Meika 12/2024
  • Remember, you are bound by the Official Secrets Act... Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they're living inside of one.
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024. — TEEN MYSTERY Sepetys Ruta 10/2024
  • The Black Death was a pandemic of unimaginable proportions, taking the lives of 75 - 200 million people worldwide.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2024] — J FICTION Tarshis Lauren 12/2024
  • Tim and his friends flee the hazardous Sea of Terror and head toward the city of Atlantis in pursuit of King Neptuna's stolen trident.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2023] — J FICTION Gibbs Stuart 10/2023
  • 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…
    Book, 2023New York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — J FICTION Nielsen Jennifer 02/2023
  • Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilderness with only a survival handbook and each other after their instructor goes missing.
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — J FICTION Richards Natalie 11/2023
  • When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the…
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — TEEN FICTION Gratz Alan 10/2022
  • Book, 2020New York : Aladdin, 2020. — J MYSTERY Ponti James 03/2020
  • Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.
    Book, 2018New York : Bloomsbury, [2018] — J FICTION Condie Allyson 09/2018
  • In 1942 13-year-olds Izzy and Matt become trapped on an Japanese-occupied Aleutian island when the rest of the American population is evacuated and must survive on their own for the duration of World War II.
    Book, 2018New York : Holiday House, [2018] — J FICTION Giff Patricia 10/2018
  • The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
    Book, 2017New York : Scholastic Press, 2017. — J FICTION Blabey Aaron
  • Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own
    Book, 2016Los Angeles ; New York : Disney Hyperion, 2016. — J FICTION Beckhorn Susan 07/2016
  • Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
    Book, 2016New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — J FICTION Brown Peter 03/2016
  • A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — J FICTION MacLachl P. 09/2016
  • After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.
    eBook, 2016HarperCollins, 2016
  • Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran.
    eBook, 2016Penguin Young Readers Group, 2016
  • Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters
    Book, 2013New York : Delacorte Press, c2013. — J FICTION Vanderpo Clare 01/2013
  • In the aftermath of the Big Growl the destroyed his city, a Lone Dog named Lucky must find a way to work with other dogs in order to survive in this frightening new world.
    eBook, 2012HarperCollins, 2012