Get Lost in a Good Book: Teen Adventure & Survival Stories
At the end of everything
Nijkamp, Marieke, author
2022
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
Be not far from me
McGinnis, Mindy, author
2020
Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
Before takeoff
Alsaid, Adi, author
2022
James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover...seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually...a button. Which she presses...Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles sprout up in the C terminal; and earthquakes split the ground apart in between.
The book of living secrets
Roux, Madeleine, 1985- author
2022
No matter how different best friends Adelle and Connie are, one thing they've always had in common is their love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. So when the girls are tempted by a mysterious man to enter the world of the book, they hardly suspect it will work. But suddenly they are in the world of Moira, living among characters they've obsessed about for years. Except... all is not how they remembered it. The world has been turned upside down: The lavish balls and star-crossed love affairs are now interlaced with unspeakable horrors. The girls realize that something dark is lurking behind their foray into fiction--and they will have to rewrite their own arcs if they hope to escape this nightmare with their lives.
Depth of field
Deen, Natasha, author
2022
When Josh finds out his girlfriend, Lian, is cheating on him, it doesn't only break his heart, it threatens his GPA. LIan calls him boring and turns in their joint photography project as her own, leaving Josh to come up with something alone or risk failing. Determined to prove himself, Josh heads to the Rocky Mountains to capture some daring photos. But as he gets lost and stumbles onto something he was never meant to see. Suddenly, a group of men are chasing him through the wilderness. Josh has no fighting abilities and no survival skills. How will he make it out of the mountain alive?
I am still alive
Marshall, Kate Alice, author
2019
Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. After a car crash kills her mother and leaves her injured, Jess was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Then a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded, the cabin burned to the ground. With only her father's dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father ... and she wants revenge.
The lovely and the lost
Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn), author
2019
When a little girl is lost in a 750,000-acre national park, a family of search-and-rescue professionals reunites and three generations of secrets are uncovered.
Mountain runaways
Withers, Pam, author
2022
"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 eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. But can they survive all that the backcountry throws at them -- hunger, illness and injury, dangerous animals, a shadowy woods dweller, and search teams in pursuit? Above all, can they stop their feisty threesome from unravelling?"-- Provided by publisher.
Switchback
Stone, D. K., 1973- author
2020
"Vale loves to hike, but kind of hates her classmates. Ash is okay with his classmates, but kind of hates the outdoors. So, needless to say they are both fairly certain that the overnight nature hike with their PE class is going to be a hellish experience. But when they get separated from the group during a storm, they have worse things to worry about than bullies and blisters. Lost in the Canadian wilderness with limited supplies, caught in dangerous weather conditions, and surrounded by deadly wildlife, it's going to take every bit of strength, skill, and luck they can muster to survive."--Jacket flap.
Wilder girls
Power, Rory, author
2019
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
Wildfire
Mac, Carrie, 1975- author
2020
Teenaged best friends Annie and Pete go on a backpacking trip in the Pacific Northwest, with dangerous consequences.