survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

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.

After crash landing on a distant planet, a ten-year-old redheaded orphan finds herself in a new home surrounded by a host of odd and intriguing friends who must band together when Uskog space pirates return, searching for a mysterious stolen treasure.

"... follows the journey of George Washington De Long and the crew of the USS Jeannette, who departed San Francisco in the summer of 1879 hoping to find a route to the North Pole. However, in mid-September the ship became locked in ice north of Siberia and drifted for nearly two years before it was crushed by ice and sank. De Long and his men escaped the ship and began a treacherous journey in extreme polar conditions in an attempt to reach civilization. Many, including De Long, did not survive"--Amazon.com.

Relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San Jose mine collapse outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010.

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a 12-yearold white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean.

"The ... tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift. There are other kids, too..."--Provided by publisher.

Escaping from a wilderness camp for young offenders, Cameron and Brianna end up in a struggle for survival.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Sneaking out late at night to watch the brave firefighters who had been putting out the blazes that continued to plague Chicago throughout the dry summer of 1871, Nate finds his fate intertwined with that of a sheltered young girl when dangerous winds cause the fires to spread out of control.

Focuses on terror attacks that struck America on September 11, 2001, and describes U.S. anti-terrorism efforts and stories of survival and recovery.