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Hood, Susan

Summary: Based on the lives, rescue, and continuing friendship of British evacuees Bess Walder, 15, and Beth Cummings, 14, who spent fourteen hours in the North Atlantic with their hands grasped across their overturned lifeboat after the Nazis torpedoed the SS City of Benares en route to Canada in 1940. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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Monroe, Mary Alice

Summary: Jake has a 'new' boat, but when Jake, Macon, and Lovie, go fishing the engine dies, and they end up shipwrecked on a small, uninhabited island far from Dewees, struggling to survive while hoping for rescue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MON

O'Brian, Patrick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

Golding, William

Summary: The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GOL

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Van

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Golding, William

Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC GOL

Osborne, Mary Pope

Summary: "Jack and Annie are in for an exciting, scary, and sad adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the decks of the Titanic. Is there anything they can do to help the ill-fated ship? Will they be able to save anyone? Will they be able to save themselves?" -- Container.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016

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Defoe, Daniel

Summary: During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: 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 and she must fight to save herself and her friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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 Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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