Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Details the story of four Russian survivors of a 1743 shipwreck in the Arctic Ocean who were trapped on a tiny island for six years. The author, David Roberts, travels to the shores where they survived in order to document their story.
A field trip to Ireland for Flin and his school's debate team turns into a life-changing adventure when their bus ends up in an earthquake and they get swallowed deep into the Earth, into a new world filled with evil creatures.
Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.
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.
