castaways

Six stories about shipwrecked people struggling to survive in difficult circumstances.

Elmer Renner recounts how he and eight other shipmates from a U.S. Navy minesweeper off the coast of Okinawa managed to survive a deadly typhoon after their ship sank on September 16, 1945.

Tim Severin chronicles the experiences he had while traveling to the sites of a variety of real-life survival stories and searches for the most likely models for the character of Robinson Crusoe.

With the zombie antidote in hand, Zack Clarke and his team of zombie chasers embark on a wild cross-country road trip to end the undead apocalypse once and for all.

Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.

As the hero of this graphic novel who is shipwrecked and stranded on an island during a school field trip, the reader is asked to make choices throughout the story to avoid being harmed by strange, half-human creatures.

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.

An illustrated retelling of the Shakespeare tale in which King Leontes sets the stage for years of sadness and misunderstanding when, in a fit of jealousy, he accuses his wife of being unfaithful with his friend King Polixenes, and banishes their newborn daughter to live or die according to the fates.