After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land but he is far from safe because a secret his cruise ship co-worker, Addie, shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.
Corporal Tony Donovan and his Army Corps of Engineer companions must rebuild one of the jeeps they were carrying when their plane crashes behind enemy lines and escape before North Korea attacks.
Friends Chase, Nicole, and Rashawn survive Hurricane Emily and make their way to Nicole's family farm, the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, only to find the circus lions and an unpredictable leopard have escaped their cages while the flood waters are rising.
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.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to cope with his parents' divorce.
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.