MCL's Survival Stories for Young Adults Bibliography

Call#	Title/Author/Description	Year
Y BOS	Deep Dream of the Rainforest by Malcolm Bosse While on an expedition with his uncle in the jungles of Borneo in 1920, fifteen-year-old Harry Windsor is captured by Bayang, a young Iban tribesman, who believes that Harry has some power to help him and an outcast Iban girl on their dream quest.	1993
Y CAR	Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Alden R. Carter Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.	1995
Y COL	The Goats by Brock Cole Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.	1987
Y GOL	Lord of the Flies by William Golding This classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954.	1962
Y HOB	Downriver by Will Hobbs Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.	1991
Y KER	Fell by M.E. Kerr A strange incident on the night of his senior prom changes John Fell's entire life, leading him to enroll in a private school under an assumed name.	1987
Y LAS	The Bone Wars by Kathryn Lasky In the mid-1870's, teenage scout Thad Longsworth finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.	1988
Y LAW	The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence A small town in Cornwall prospers on the bones of the shipwrecked dead, until fourteen-year-old John Spencer survives to tell the tale.	1998
Y MAZ	The Island Keeper by Harry Mazer Tired of being fat, rich, and miserable, Cleo Murphy runs away to a deserted island in Canada for the summer. A canoe accident strands her on the island where she is forced to face the brutal Canadian winter.	1981
Y MOE	The Forty-Third War by Louise Moeri Set in an imaginary Central American country, this is the harrowing story of the effects of revolution on a twelve-year-old boy who becomes a soldier.	1989
Y MOR	DeathWalk by Walt Morey Rescued from a violent accident in the Alaskan arctic by a mysterious trapper, seventeen-year-old Joel Rogers finds himself running for his life from two fugitives who are killing trappers and stealing their furs.	1991
Y NEL	The Beggar's Ride by Theresa Nelson Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has his own secret reason for distrusting society.	1992
Y NIX	High Trail to Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon In 1879, seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings strange looks and an attempt on her life.	1991
Y ODE	Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.	1980
Y PAU	Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Brian is on his way to the Canadian wilderness to visit his father when the pilot of his single engine plane has a heart attack and the plane crash lands. Brian is left alone in the wilderness with only a hatchet and his wits.	1987
Y PEC	Secrets of the Shopping Mall by Richard Peck Two eight-grade loners decide to take up residence in a department store. Little do they know that theirs is not an original idea.	1979
Y PET	Going for the Big One by P.J. Petersen Left penniless by their stepmother while their father is looking for work in Alaska, three youngsters start out on what becomes a dangerous trek over the mountains to the small town where they plan to wait for their father.	1986
Y TAY	Sniper by Theodore Taylor Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.	1989
Y TEM	Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple After his father disappears, Felippe, his mother, and his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada.	1993
Y TOW	Kate and the Revolution by John Rowe Townsend Seventeen-year-old Kate falls in love with a prince and finds herself in the center of a revolution.	1983
Y TUR	The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure, which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.	1996
Y WEL	Through the Hidden Door by Rosemary Wells Two boys stumble on the remains of an ancient underground civilization.	1987
Y WHI	Deathwatch by Robb White Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as a guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.	1972
Y ZIN	Reef of Death by Paul Zindel While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.	1998