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Abel's island

1988
Abel the mouse is a castaway on an uninhabited island. He finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

Lord of the flies

1992
Group of English school boys are stranded on an unpopulated island and must confront society's complexities and their own natures.

The elephant tree

1978
Lost together in the California desert, two tough kids from hostile gangs are forced to acknowledge their mutual dependence.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins

1997
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

2010
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.

Life of Pi

a novel
2001
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

The worst-case scenario survival handbook

extreme junior edition
2008
Provides advice for kids on how to deal with a variety of situations, such as going to the bathroom in the woods, treating a jellyfish sting, surviving a rattlesnake encounter, building a snowcave, and more.

Julie's wolf pack

1998
Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.

Hunger

a Gone novel
2009
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.

Dr. Franklin's island

2002
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

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