survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

Presents a graphic novel version of Dafoe's eighteenth century travelogue about the adventures of a shipwrecked mariner.

Tony and his twin sister Andie are four-wheeling in the woods near their family cabin, when they are caught in a violent thunderstorm--then the sky turns really dark, and they realize a monster tornado is on their tail, and suddenly they are not sure whether it is safer to keep running, or find some place to seek shelter.

When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car, he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua, New Guinea, in search of a World War II fighter plane, and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.

Recounts the true story of Captain Salvador Alvarenga's fourteen month survival saga after his boat was lost at sea in a terrible storm. From the constant shark attacks and the death of his companion four months into his ordeal to his rescue by natives on a remote island in the Pacific, details one man's battle to survive under unthinkable circumstances.

Taking a job in the galley of the Titanic to earn his passage from Ireland to America, Gavin teams up with grieving orphan Karolina when the doomed ship's collision with an iceberg threatens their survival.

When a young boy survives a plan crash and finds himself alone in the woods, he is saved by a bigfoot creature he calls Flink.

"In graphic novel format, details true stories of people who survived being lost at sea"--Provided by publisher.

"When Carter, Vanessa, Buzz, and Jane found themselves stranded on Shadow Island, they had no idea what they were getting into. Now, one of their group is missing, and the stakes just keep getting higher"--Back cover.

In the future, when the Earth is no longer easily habitable, seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds, a girl in hiding, struggles to protect weapons developed by her father that could lead to disaster should they fall into the wrong hands.