survivalism

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.

"Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying 86 passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor"--Back cover.

My Absolute Darling is a brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.

"A team's school bus breaks down in the middle of the desert after a disappointing loss at the State Championships, and a gathering dust storm threatens to turn their bus into a death trap. It will take some quick thinking to get through this!"--Provided by publisher.

A century and a half after cloned dinosaurs forced humans to move into underground compounds, Sky discovers a clue to the whereabouts of her long-missing father and ventures above ground on a quest that has the potential to save the world.

Determined to endure the crisis she is sure is imminent, Bex, a member of a band of survivalists, finds herself at a loss when she falls for a gentle, gun-hating girl while her brother's involvement in the group becomes increasingly extreme.

Collects the first forty-eight issues of "The Walking Dead" comic book series. When the dead begin to rise and the planet is overrun by zombies, a group of survivors led by police officer Rick Grimes must struggle to survive in a world where the dead are not nearly as dangerous as the living.

Jonathan Grisby is the newest arrival at the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys. Despite the name, Slabhenge is more like a prison than a school - an ancient, crumbling fortress of gray stone rising up from the ocean. It is dark, damp, and dismal. And it is just the place Jonathan figures he deserves. Because Jonathan has done something terrible. And he's willing to accept whatever punishement he has coming.