castaways

On the maiden voyage of the SS Princess of the Pacific, Vida Hazzard has a plan to save her reputation by wooing Fitzhugh Farrar, the heir to a vast shipping fortune, and getting him to propose. What she doesn't plan for is Fitz's best friend Sal or a hurricane that sinks the ship. Stranded on an island with Fitz and Sal, Vida must decide between the future she's always dreamed of and the one she never knew she wanted.

"When Brooke, Eva, Nate, and Jay take a nighttime sail off the Florida coast, they never imagine that their lives are about to change forever. Shipwrecked by a storm at sea, the teenagers become castaways on an island that seems designed to test their very natures. Faced with loss, trauma, and the harsh reality of day-to-day survival, will they find the strength to confront their inner demons and escape the Vanishing Place? Or are mysterious forces at work to keep them stranded for all time?"--Provided by the publisher.

After barely escaping from the compound where Eli's dad kept his family for six years, Eli and his family are are learning to acclimate to "normal" life.

After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

Escaping from a wilderness camp for young offenders, Cameron and Brianna end up in a struggle for survival.

While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.

When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctorwho is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

"West Grayer lives in a world where every person has a twin, or Alt. Only one can survive to adulthood, and West has just received her notice to kill her Alt"--Provided by publisher.

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

"Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war"--Provided by publisher.