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1) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Language
English
Description
Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's summer in Alaska and the light surrounding the shipping-container-turned-storage-shed where Liv Russo is being held prisoner is fuzzy and grey. Around her is thick forest and serrated mountains. In front of her, across a clearing, is a low-slung cabin with a single window that spills a wash of yellow light onto bare ground. Illuminated in that light is the father of her child, a man she once loved. A man who is now her jailor. Liv vows to do...
3) Undead ahead
Author
Series
Zombie chasers volume 2
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While trying to survive after zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack, Rice, and Madison discover a zombie antidote and embark on a mission to save the nation from the undead scourge.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Raymond and his pup Rosie are abandoned by his family, he uses his wilderness skills to survive in the woods, but as winter comes, he realizes his wits are not enough, and that perhaps it is time he starts trusting others with his secret.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To get the answers he seeks, he'll need to travel farther...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore--a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
Author
Series
Wyoming Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
During an attempt to stop unchecked violence from breaking out, Governor Agar faces death, saved only when Lauren Davis shoots first. After the Collapse, insulin is in short supply for the 40 thousand diabetics in Wyoming. Word comes down there's a lab north of Boulder, Colorado, that can make insulin in sufficient quantities to keep people alive. Governor Agar handpicks a team-The Fallen Eagle convoy-to retrieve the scientists and their lab in a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the power failure that brought about societal collapse. Since then they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors once did, but their natural food resources are dwindling, and the time has come to find a new home. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their original...
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
A Josh y a su primo los unen el amor por los tacos, los reptiles y las bromas, pero en un viaje a un bosque cercano se ven de repente en medio de una tormenta de fuego que se mueve rápidamente, un monstruo abrasador que pronto arrasará con millones de acres de tierra y posiblemente con la ciudad donde viven los chicos. Josh tiene que enfrentar los problemas familiares que lo queman por dentro, pero primero tendrá que sobrevivir a las llamas que...
12) Unsinkable
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two unsinkable women--wartime nurse and stewardess Violet Jessop who has survived a shipwreck and two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic, and Special Operations agent Daphne Chaundanson who faces challenges she never expected during World War II--form a connection that reshapes both their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
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