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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014

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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

Center, Katherine

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

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

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020

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

Tudor, C. J.

Summary: Hannah, trapped with a handful of survivors after an accident; Meg, stranded in a cable car high above snowy mountains with five strangers; and Carter, plunged into darkness at an isolated ski chalet, are all faced with something that threatens to consume all of humanity.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TUD

Brennan, Allison

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRE

McCarthy, Steve

Summary: "The Vasylenko family are all adventurers who love wild places and wild things. All, that is, except young Oktober. He also dreams of adventure, but it's the kind that takes place between the pages of a book, indoors, where it's safe and warm. Unlike the rest of his family, he dreads venturing out where it's cold, wet, and home to a creature he calls the Wilderness. His father assures him the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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Tudor, C. J.

Summary: Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape, with their sanity and secrets intact. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She's in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TUD

Wang, Jen

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash's family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2024

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Chandler, Matt

Summary: Quincy is on his first black bear hunting trip in Maine, when he breaks his leg and has to depend on his friends to recover the bear he shot.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHA

Goebel, Jenny

Summary: Adjusting to life with type 1 diabetes isn't easy. Emily is desperate to prove that she's just as strong and capable as ever, so she jumps at the opportunity to go on a backcountry ski trip with her dad and her new diabetic alert dog, Molly. But then a severe winter storm rips through the area, separating Emily from her father. When it becomes clear that no one will come to their rescue before...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GOE

Hashimoto, Meika

Summary: "Max the puppy has fallen in love. From the moment Emi walks into the shelter with her long black hair and bright smile, he knows she's meant to be his forever person. Emi's family has just moved to Maine from Japan, and he can tell that she is in desperate need of a friend like Max. After Emi adopts him, Max goes to live with her high up on a mountain homestead where he explores his new world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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

Harmel, Kristin

Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021

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

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HAR

Lansens, Lori

Summary: "A ... survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs. Four go up the mountain, but only three will come down"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LAN

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are the best of friends. When they and two other local...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Winton, Tim

Summary: "A new novel about a man trying to survive in the wilderness"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press/Balliett & Fitzgerald 1999

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

Hannah, Kristin

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Hill, Kaitlyn

Summary: "Indoorsy theater girl Natalie must team up with surly nature-lover Finn in an Amazing Race-style reality competition show set in the Appalachian wilderness--if they do not kill (or kiss!) each other first."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Romance 2024

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Withers, Pam

Summary: "When three siblings run away to hide in the mountains, they have to face search parties, hunger, injury -- and the danger of their team unravelling. First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children's Services threatens to separate them. That's when the three Gunnarsson kids, Jon, Korka, and Aron, decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until Jon turns...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2022

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

Summary: An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild, thinking they'll never see Masha again. Three years go by, and Emily has gotten lost deep in the wild forests of the Pacific Northwest. Cold, frightened and alone in the gathering darkness, she falls and is knocked unconscious. When she awakens, Emily is amazed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BEA

Hansen, Gary P.

Summary: It "tells the story of plane crash survivors in the stark winter wilderness of Northern Ontario, Canada. Against overwhelming odds, they struggle to over come their advertises, and hardships, with a little help from a friend"--P. 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: West Bow Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Paulsen, Gary

Summary: When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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

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