castaways

"It's 1835. Cabin boy Simon Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with the world-famous scientist, Charles Darwin. But when Simon falls overboard during a huge storm, he washes up on an unexplored island. Stranded there, he makes a discovery that could change the world. Now it's not just his own survival at stake--the future of an undiscovered species is in his hands. But perhaps there's one person who could help... Based on the real events of Charles Darwin's legendary voyage, this is a novel that melds science with wonder"--From the publisher's web site.

"More than anything, Amelia wants to follow in her aviator mother's footsteps and learn to fly airships. But her grieving father, Commander Erroway, has forbidden her from stepping inside a cockpit since her mother disappeared on a doomed flight. When disaster strikes and Amelia is cast adrift and alone on the flagship of Commander Erroway's fleet, she eventually crash lands in a distant country. Taken in by Fin and Huxley, two inventor brothers who live with their mother deep in the uncharted Juniper forest, Amelia is determined to fix her airship and fly home. But along the way, Amelia discovers that home is not always where the heart is, and that sometimes being lost is the first step to finding your way"--Provided by the publisher.

On the maiden voyage of the SS Princess of the Pacific, Vida Hazzard has a plan to save her reputation by wooing Fitzhugh Farrar, the heir to a vast shipping fortune, and getting him to propose. What she doesn't plan for is Fitz's best friend Sal or a hurricane that sinks the ship. Stranded on an island with Fitz and Sal, Vida must decide between the future she's always dreamed of and the one she never knew she wanted.

"When Brooke, Eva, Nate, and Jay take a nighttime sail off the Florida coast, they never imagine that their lives are about to change forever. Shipwrecked by a storm at sea, the teenagers become castaways on an island that seems designed to test their very natures. Faced with loss, trauma, and the harsh reality of day-to-day survival, will they find the strength to confront their inner demons and escape the Vanishing Place? Or are mysterious forces at work to keep them stranded for all time?"--Provided by the publisher.

After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

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

While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.

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

"West Grayer lives in a world where every person has a twin, or Alt. Only one can survive to adulthood, and West has just received her notice to kill her Alt"--Provided by publisher.

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.