Young Survival

From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change.​ Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Years later, Addy’s...

Alemania, 1945. Aunque el campo de concentración de Gross-Rosen fue liberado, para Zofia Lederman las heridas que le dejó la guerra (tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres años antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek, fueron los únicos integrantes de su familia a los que enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las cámaras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los demás, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante tía se fueron a la izquierda. Antes de que los nazis los separaran, los hermanos alcanzaron a hacerse una promesa....

Der fünfzehnjährige Bauernjunge Adam Brown würde alles tun, um seinen Freund Tip, einen Sklaven auf der benachbarten Plantage, zu beschützen—auch wenn es bedeutet, sich mit Nathan Billings, dem Sohn des reichsten Landbesitzers in Tennessee, anzulegen. Aber als es so aussieht, als hätte Adam Nathan im Streit getötet, gerät er in Panik und tritt unter falschem Namen der Unionsarmee bei. Während sich seine Seele durch die Gräueltaten des Krieges verdunkelt, will er nur noch nach Hause. Aber um dorthin zurückkehren zu können, muss er sich, seiner Vergangenheit stellen.

Der Anfang vom Ende - das Ende vom Anfang. Während Noa alles versucht, um Zoyahs Leben zu schützen, rückt Ilios Armee immer näher. Doch eine letzte Begegnung bringt Noas Welt dazu, für immer zu zerfallen. Vereint in dem Traum eines Lebens, das bestimmt ist von falschen Entscheidungen und dem Beginn eines Krieges mit der eigenen Vergangenheit. Doch wenn das vergessene Leben der Schlüssel des Sieges ist, wird aus den Kämpfen der Zukunft eine Illusion.

Harper and her two sisters face extreme danger and unexpected natural disasters while hiking in the Cascades of Oregon. Nonstop action, survival, high school science, and sibling rivalry are the hallmarks of this contemporary realistic survival story by the acclaimed author of Black Hole Sun...

Emily Rogers thought nothing could be worse than her family moving across the ocean. When the unthinkable happens and the ship goes down, she learns just how wrong she is. Now she's stranded on a deserted island with her two young cousins and Christopher Williams, the boy who refused to leave until all the women and children were safe.

Fifteen-year-old aspiring filmmaker Jane-Claire Stevens believes her tight-knit beach community can weather anything. Little does she know disaster is indiscriminate. The record-breaking hurricane raging her way wipes her beloved home off the map. Jane-Claire is adrift. Her family’s plans obliterated. Her own future blank. The family is forced to separate. Her physician dad remains behind for his patients, and she evacuates with her mom and older brother to start from scratch in an unwelcoming city.

Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: This isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event. The simulation that was supposed to prepare them all for life after the apocalypse has trapped their minds in a shared virtual reality and their bodies in stasis chambers.

When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a diverse group of teens ends up trapped behind a store's security shutter. To her own surprise, 17-year-old Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. But she's hiding a big secret - and she's not the only one. The group has only three choices: Run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences.

A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco. After days alone at sea in a tiny rowing boat, Bill rescues a girl clinging to a barrel. Aya, from the nomadic Berber tribe, was escaping to Europe when her migrant ship was destroyed in the storm. Through endless days and nights, they drift. Aya tells Bill about the Arabian Nights, and Shahrazad, who told 1001 stories to save her life. As hope of rescue begins to fade, they find strength in these tales of magic, brave heroes, wily thieves, greedy sultans, and courageous girls.

In the mid-21st century, dogs are all but extinct. An experiment gone awry caused every canine on Earth to become hyperintelligent. When as a species they stopped wagging their tails, hysteria ensued - followed by a program of mass euthanasia. Now the only surviving dogs are relegated to a sanctuary off the coast of Florida: Dog Island. There, they are studied in a wild, feral, and protected state. And there, too, their robot replacements are tested before being sold for mass consumption. Seventeen-year-old Nano Miller was born and bred on Dog Island, as were her two best friends, Jack and Wolf.

Henry Lambert would rather play video games than spend time in the great outdoors - but that doesn't make him a wuss. Skinny nerd? Fine. But wuss is a little harsh. Sadly, his dad doesn't agree. Which is why Henry is being shipped off to Strongwoods Survival Camp. Strongwoods isn't exactly as advertised. It looks like the victim of a zombie apocalypse, the "camp director" is a psycho drill sergeant, and Henry's sure he saw a sign written in blood...

Der Roman von Daniel Defoe beschreibt die seltsamen Abenteuer des Robinson Crusoe, der siebenundzwanzig Jahre auf einer unbewohnten Insel vor der amerikanischen Küste lebte, auf die er nach einem Schiffbruch verschlagen wurde. Robinson Crusoe ist der erste moderne englische Roman und gleichzeitig ein zeitloses Leitbild der Weltliteratur, das einen beispiellosen Einfluß auf die Romanliteratur ausgeübt hat.

When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits California, Ruby is trapped in a laundromat with Charlie, a boy she had her first conversation with only moments before. She can't see anything beyond the rubble that she's trapped beneath, but shes sure someone will come save them soon. As the hours and days tick by, Ruby and Charlie struggle to stay hopeful and stay alive. Ruby has only Charlies voice and her memories to find the hope to keep holding on.

It's 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike's dreams of glory end when he's wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines.

Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated - until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.

Natalia is not the kind of girl who takes risks. Six years ago, she barely survived the house fire that killed her baby brother. Now she is cautious and always plays it safe. For months, her coworker Wyatt has begged her to come hiking with him, and Natalia finally agrees. But when a wildfire breaks out, blocking the trail back, a perfect sunny day quickly morphs into a nightmare. With no cell service, few supplies, and no clear way out of the burning forest, a group of strangers will have to become allies if they're going to survive.

Finn Driscoll is counting down the days until she can leave for college. With her beloved brother, Noah, in a coma and her high school social life sinking every day, she’s ready for a fresh start. Until the night she sees Noah in a dream. He begs for her help. At first, she shakes it off as just a nightmare. Then it happens again. And again. Frightened, Finn confides in her grandmother, only to learn the shocking truth about her family. They’re Dreamwalkers - heroes who step into the River of Dreams and fight the monsters in other people’s nightmares.

Pawns in a millennia-old struggle, the young people known only as the Birthday Children were genetically engineered to survive on the planet Omeyocan - but they were never meant to live there. They were made to be “overwritten”, their minds wiped and replaced by the consciousnesses of the monsters who created them. Em changed all of that.

Before Cyrano de Bergerac became a famous swordsman, poet, inventor, and iconoclast hero, he was an awkward teenager just like the rest of us. Find out what adventures turned him into the courageous, self-assured, hero we know and admire when you listen to Young Cyrano. Follow him on his teenage exploits with his best friend, Le Bret, and his first love, Roxanne. Adventure! Mysteries! Romance! Freemasons! Poetry, and of course, swordfights!