Avi
The True Confessions of
Charlotte
Doyle
As the lone young lady on a transatlantic voyage
in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is
murderous and the crew rebellious.
5th Grade and up
Lynne Reid Banks
Broken Bridge
The murder of fourteen-year-old Glen Shelby,
soon after his arrival in Israel to visit his father's family,
has a dramatic effect on the lives of his relatives,
the other members of their kibbutz, and the
Arabs responsible for his death.
7th Grade and up
Eva Bunting
Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz
Island
When he offends the toughest gang in his San Francisco
school, Danny tries to elude them by going to Alcatraz
only to find himself and a Park Service employee
trapped by the gang in an old prison cell block.
6th Grade and up
Sheila Every Brunford
The Incredible Journey
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador
retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian
wilderness to find their family.
5th Grade and up
Eric M. Campbell
Shark Callers
Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other
traveling with his family, face the challenge of
their lives when a volcano erupts causing a
massive tidal wave in the South Seas.
7th Grade and up
Alden R. Carter
Between a Rock
and a Hard Place
Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his
diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip
that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy
themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's
lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.
6th Grade and up
Caroline B.Cooney
Flash Fire
As fire sweeps through a canyon near Los Angeles,
teenagers Danna and Hall Press and other children
whose parents are not around must work
together to save themselves.
6th Grade and up
Flight #116 is Down
Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people
from a plane crash on her family's property,
and the experience changes her life forever.
6th Grade and up
Thomas Dygard
River Danger
Although he reluctantly agrees to accompany his little
brother on a canoe trip, eighteen-year-old Eric finally gains
new respect for this younger sibling
whose ingenuity rescues him.
6th Grade and up
David Hill
Take it Easy
Sent by his father on a five-day wilderness hike in
the rugged New Zealand mountains, Rob and five
other less-experienced teenagers must go it
alone when their leader suddenly dies.
6th Grade and up
Will Hobbs
River Thunder
Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her
companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado
River for a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
6th Grade and up
Wild Man Island
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking
group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death,
a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he
manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human
inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest
prehistoric immigrants to America.
6th Grade and up
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Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Adventures (6th Grade and up)
Stormbreaker
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian,
fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue
his uncle's dangerous work for
Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Point Blank
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a
spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive
school for boys in the French Alps.
Skeleton Key
Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the
Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in
Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and
the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Eagle Strike
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich
in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates
international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray
whose new video game venture hides sinister motives
involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles,
and the international drug trade.
Scott O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl
who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated
island off the California coast when her
tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
4th Grade and up
Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four
days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with
only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother,
and learning also to survive his parents' divorce
6th Grade and up
P.J. Peterson
White water
Greg confronts his own fears and assumes a leadership
role when his father is bitten by a rattlesnake
during a white-water rafting trip
5th Grade and up
Timothy Taylor
Sniper
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a
mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats
in his family's private
zoological preserve.
7th Grade and up
Paul Zindel
Reef of Death
While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's
missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef,
seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an
evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.
6th Grade and up
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