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Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

When Elizabeth and Katie, two girls from very different backgrounds, board the Titanic, they think they are on their way to new lives in America, but what they do not know is that they will have to fight to stay alive on the sinking ship.

Presents true stories of survival, including those of Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela, and the people involved in the Iranian embassy siege.

U.S. Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady tells how he evaded capture and stayed alive with little water and no food in enemy territory after the F-16 he was flying on a peace-keeping mission in Bosnia was shot down.

Fifteen-year-old Toby, who has spent his entire life traveling from place to place with his mother as she constantly changes her identity, discovers that she is a political fugitive from justice.

The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Forcibly deported to Canada because of his terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, thirteen-year-old Declan must choose between his revolutionary past and a new life with his Canadian relatives.

Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.