survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

Oakdale is in the midst of a blackout and Joe will miss his basketball tryout unless he and Wishbone can make it across town in time, which reminds Wishbone of the tale of Robinson Crusoe. Wishbone imagines he is the shipwrecked traveler who must survive by his wits alone.

After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery.

An abandoned puppy earns the nickname Santa Paws, and finds a home, after saving the lives of several people in town.

A strange weather phenomenon drives students into a superstore where fourteen kids take refuge while the world outside gets torn apart from a series of escalating disasters.

Born half-grown in a world that is being destroyed, Fisher has instinctive knowledge of many things, including that he must avoid the robot that knows his name.

After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.

Chronicles the transformation of a spaceship into a living organism, as seventeen-year-old Cheney leads the hundreds of inhabitants in a fight for survival while machines turn on them, treating all humans as parasites.

Thirteen-year-old Eli Papadopoulos, a member of the family that founded InfiniCorp, the massive corporation that runs everything in the domed cities, becomes worried when the sky keeps shorting out, but his questions get him sent away to the Tower where he meets Tabitha, and together they make plans to escape.

While spending the summer in Vermont, eleven-year-old Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail and decides to hike to Massachusetts to visit her best friend.

Discusses how to survive at sea, with depictions, in graphic novel format, of three true survival stories in the South Atlantic and South Pacific oceans.