After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
Presents the complete text of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, " with a line-by-line translation of the play in simple language, a list of characters, and a commentary.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
The Remnants, a group of people who survived the destruction of Earth, discover a ship that is capable of replicating human life and existence, but they soon come to suspect they are pawns in a deadly game.
Eighty people, having escaped from Earth before an asteroid strike killed the entire human race, begin to fear for their own survival when they wake after a five-hundred-year "sleep" to find themselves in a very strange place.
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.
