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Testing Your Wits to Stay Alive
What would you do if you were lost in the wilderness, or lost in the halls of your school? How would you defend yourself? These fiction and nonfiction books are about teens who fight for survival. |
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Courtenay, Bryce
The Power of One Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, endures an abusive boarding school with the help of a boxer, a chicken, a pianist, and a group of African prisoners. |
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Cross, Gillian
Dark Ground Upon waking up alone in an alien-like jungle, Robert remembers being in a plane with his family but finds no sign of a crash or survivors. |
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Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun Two fifteen-year-old girls, one a slave and the other an indentured servant, escape from their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to a Spanish colony in Florida that gives sanctuary to slaves. |
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Ellis, Deborah
I Am a Taxi Living with his family in a prison in Bolivia due to his parents' convictions for drug trafficking, twelve-year-old Diego does his best to live a normal life, but when his mother receives additional fines, Diego risks everything as an errand boy to earn some quick money. |
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Orlev, Uri
Run, Boy, Run: a Novel Based on a true story, Srulik Frydman, a nine-year-old boy who escapes from the Warsaw Ghetto must survive the hostile Nazi-occupied Polish countryside during wartime. |
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life As We Knew It Told through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. |
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Van Draanen, Wendelin
Runaway After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive. |
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Werlin, Nancy
The Rules of Survival Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother. |
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Bluestein, Jane and Eric Katz
High School's Not Forever This is your survival guide to the maze that is the high school experience, featuring real-life stories from teens across the country, as well as a collection of high school "survivor stories." |
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Dau, John Bul
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir John Bul Dau is driven from his African village during his teenage years, separated from his family during the civil war in southern Sudan, and spends years in refugee camps until coming to the U.S. as one of 4,000 Lost Boys of Sudan. |
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Wilson, Daniel H.
How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion We all know it's only a matter of time before the robots take a stand against us! Prepare yourself for robotic-Armageddon with a humorous survival guide by a PhD student at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. |
