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 [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 [X], 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 [X], historical fiction
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 [X], survival [X], world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction, great britain