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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

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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Paulsen, Gary.

Summary: After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012

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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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Lang, Heidi

Summary: Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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

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

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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Perkins, Lynne Rae

Summary: "Violet and Jobie, sibling mice accustomed to living comfortably in a human home, find themselves uprooted and must quickly adapt to an unfamiliar world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PER

Hiaasen, Carl.

Summary: Classic Malley, to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard ... he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink, he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HIA

Patterson, James

Summary: "Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PAT

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAT

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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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Paulsen, Gary

Summary: As listeners of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he faced the elements and lived on the edge of death. Now that he's back in civilization, he can't make sense of ordinary life. High school leaves him feeling more isolated than when he was by himself in the wild. He misses the woods so much that he'd go crazy if he...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PAU

Marshall, Kate Alice

Summary: "After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive-for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Hiaasen, Carl.

Summary: Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC Hia

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

Hiaasen, Carl.

Summary: With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIA

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

Maddox, Jake

Summary: The Keys family is vacationing at Shenandoah National Park intending to do some serious hiking, but twelve-year-old Marlon would much rather be on his phone talking with his friends at home in Chicago, and is further annoyed because the girl his own age, Nadia, turns out to be an experienced hiker; but when on the first day his complaining and resistance separates him from his parents his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAD

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.

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHA

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

De los Santos, Marisa

Summary: "When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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Henry, April

Summary: "When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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

Reid, Elwood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REI

Stevenson, Robin

Summary: Jayden ends up in the unforgiving Australian outback, fighting for his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2012

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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH STE

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