survival (after accidents, etc.)

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Eleven-year-old Kevin finds himself alone and lost in the Utah desert, with only his wits to help him survive.

Recounts the stories of survivors from the 1500s to the present investigating their moral dilemmas, personalities, and influence on society, literature, and art.

Jessie's grandfather buys her a special silver ring, but she must depend on the magic in her heart and the strength in her hands when she and her grandfather are stranded in the desert.

As he prepares for another day of deep-sea fishing and diving, Les Tassell is unable to shake the feeling that danger awaits him somewhere in the isolated Florida Keys.

What began as a vacation soon turns into a battle for survival for six young girls adrift near the Bahamas.

Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the commissioned plans of his precious clock.

Original title: Brother in the land. After nuclear war hits England, a teenage survivor and his little brother must fight for their lives in a harsh new world.

Dan and his family face hardship and danger when an ice storm causes a 3-day power failure in their town.

After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.