survival skills

The author recounts his harrowing experiences of being trapped for six days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his life.

Text and accompanying photographs teach hundreds of skills for living in the wild, from setting up camp to finding food, from surviving a blizzard to signaling for help.

Discusses how to survive one hundred of the most dangerous things in the world, including avalanches, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, sharks, falling down a well, and more, and covers the likelihood of encountering each threat and the probability of survival.

A story told in poems, in which a family experiences a renewed appreciation for home and community after they are evacuated during a spring flood and then return to survey the damage. Includes a discussion guide and language arts, art, drama, social studies, and science activity suggestions.

The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him.

In 1838, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to help his family prepare for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.

Discusses how to avoid danger and deal with emergencies in the wilderness, on the beach, and in the city.

More than three years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, fifteen-year-old Sherry teams up with seventeen-year-old Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.

Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.

When two Florida teenagers become stranded on a tiny island in the Everglades, they attempt to walk ten miles through swampland to reach civilization.