When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his depe

"At first, when a massive ice storm traps fourteen-year-old Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, it feels like a game to try out the survival

"The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories and inspired some of its best wr

Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilder

Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.

While spending the summer in Vermont, eleven-year-old Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail and decides to hike to Massachusetts to visit her

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forc

In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms,

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriende