survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

Covers the famous luxury ship and explores its remains on the ocean floor.

An interactive adventure where the reader determines their fate aboard the doomed RMS Titantic.

Luke, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian. They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's no easy way out. And when a terrifing storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival.

With her father away and her brother injured, it is up to little Pip to find food for her hungry siblings and mother mouse, but it is a hard winter and the only place where she is likely to find Christmas dinner is at Land's End, where the people live.

A twelve-year-oldd Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the Wet and a life of unpaid slavery.

Two castaways share an island adventure.

"Three teens run out of gas while island-hopping in the South Pacific. A lone sailor drifts on an inflatable life raft in the vast Atlantic. Four men cling to their capsized sailboat far off the New Zealand coast. These remarkable true tales could have ended in tragedy-but they didn't! What happened when these people found themselves stranded at sea for weeks on end? And how did they survive to tell their tales?"--Provided by publisher.

At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.

Presents the script for the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Also includes seven other related literary works.

Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.