survival stories

Find out the dangers of being lost in the rainforest with the five shocking stories in each book in this series. The survivors faced deadly animals like jaguars and poisonous spiders and encountered dangerous terrain, with heavy rains, flooding, and waterfalls. Readers will learn how they each made it out alive, with little more than an iron will.

From avalanches to hiking dangers, this series retells five stories of adventure and survival on cold, dangerous mountains around the world. Some people lost limbs, and others lost fingers and toes to the cold. Even the most prepared can have harrowing experiences. But with grit and determination, these survivors didn't lose their lives.

When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety. But soon they encounter something even Sarah cannot believe: a silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, the group uncovers the chilling truth behind the lion s silver sheen: a Corpus-manufactured, highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area and eliminate life as they know it.

While searching for her missing family, Sara Jane Rispoli finds herself on the run from terrifying creatures who are determined to kill her and that are somehow connected to her family's disappearance.

Seventy-four foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in the Gulf Stream. Three men are in it but are repeatedly tossed out into the sea. Their forty-seven-foot sailboat capsized long ago. Rescuers are battling hurricane-force winds in their Jayhawk helicopter, wondering if there will be anyone left to rescue. Also caught up in the storm are three other boats, each in a Mayday situation, with a total of ten people on board. Only six of these people will ever see land again.

Robert Hichens gave the famous order "Hard-a-Starboard" in a desperate attempt to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg. Two and a half hours later the ship sank and Hichens rowed a lifeboat with Molly Brown in it and his sharp retort to her, together with his command on the ship, branded him a coward and a bully and he found his name forever tarnished. After his testimony, which led to the accepted sinking of the Titanic for more than 100 years, he returned to the sea and had a long career despite the fact that the dark memories of the Titanic were never far away. Using unpublished material from the family archive, Sally Nilsson, his great-granddaughter, seeks to reveal the true character of the last man at the wheel of the Titanic.

The Endurance left England for Antarctica in August, 1914 with polar explorer Ernest Shackelton and twenty-seven men on board. By January 1915 the Endurance had become locked inside an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. Then the true test of survival began for Shackleton and his men and they struggled to survive for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas. Their ordeal ended only after a miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.