Peak
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 220
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: mountaineering, survival [X], coming of age [X], everest, mount (china and nepal), mount everest (china and nepal), survival skills, bildungsromans
Ninth Ward
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 60
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
subjects: hurricane katrina, 2005, spirits, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, african americans, new orleans (la.), survival [X], coming of age [X]
Hide And Seek
In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: kidnapping, family life, divorce, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, bildungsromans, arizona, survival [X], family, families, castaways, bildungsromans, coming of age [X]
Ghost Hawk
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: coming of age [X], wampanoag indians, indians of north america, ghosts, survival [X], massachusetts, native americans, ghost stories, bildungsromans, historical fiction
Last Child
Caught between the worlds of the her Scottish father and her Mandan mother in what is now North Dakota, Rosalie fights to survive both the 1837 smallpox epidemic and the actions of a vengeful trader.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Shelter Me
Fifteen-year-old Maggie leaves London during the 1941 German blitz to stay in Wales at a secluded boarding school, but when it turns out not to be as safe as it was supposed to be, she and three other girls flee and begin a harrowing journey back to London.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: coming of age [X], bildungsromans, survival [X], world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction, great britain
What The Other Three Don't Know
When a loner, a jock, an outsider, and an Internet influencer go river rafting together for a school assignment, the four strangers end up sharing their secrets and relying on each other when the trip turns dangerous.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: rafting (sports), secrecy, survival [X], friendship, rivers, secrets, coming of age [X], survival skills, bildungsromans
What Beauty There Is
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
FIC
year:
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Diet Soda Club
"Reed Beckett's little sister, Beatrice, has never been awakened by the smell of breakfast or a school-day alarm clock.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity, schools, survival [X], coming of age [X], individuality, high school students, high schools, school stories, friendship, siblings, people with disabilities, survival skills, school fiction, social problem fiction
What Beauty There Is
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 430