Survival Stories

Seventy years later, Pearl Harbor comes to life for a new generation of readers!....

When we left off in book 5, the creator of the world--in order to avert an all-out war--had just decreed that the Ender King and the billionaire Dretsky family must instead form teams and compete in a series of three surf contests in order to determine who would be victorious....

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods - all by himself....

This harrowing middle-grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.

The Wishing Glen was a secluded place in a far-off country where the rivers ran with silver mist and the heavens glittered like diamonds. Living there was a guardian the legendary old owl Orius, who watched out for the desires of the pure-hearted.

In this third high-octane instalment, Jack and his friends are skiing in the Alps when Jack is engulfed by an avalanche....

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle....

Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck - he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their aunt Daisy....

The Black Death was a pandemic of unimaginable proportions, taking the lives of 75-200 million people worldwide. Lauren Tarshis's story of one girl surviving the plague pulses with terror, action, and hope.

When we last left our squad at the end of book 10, Claire had just learned the horrible truth about her father, and a dragon head gave Jimmy a cryptic clue as to the whereabouts of the kidnapped Notch....

It's the end of August 2005, and a big hurricane is blowing in to New Orleans, Louisiana....

Tuck and Ginger are two cats who get on each other's nerves. But they need to pause the claws if they’re to escape from the high-rise apartment where they are trapped....

A heart-warming novel about Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Muscovite, a Londoner and a New Yorker....

In 1894, 12-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie, and he's wanted by the troopers....

Victoria Secord, a 14-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs....

Three down-on-their-luck adventurers seek a lost civilization in this epic Minecraft novel....

It all started with the dreams. But Cassie didn't pay much attention to them. She and her friends have been having nightmares ever since they acquired the power to morph....

After an imminent yet unnamed danger forces people across Colorado to leave their homes, a group of kids including an aspiring filmmaker and a budding journalist find themselves in the same evacuation camp.

It's a bright, beautiful day in New York. But just as Lucas arrives at his uncle's firehouse, everything changes - and nothing will ever be the same again....

This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge....

The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there’s plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers....

The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands....

In the next book of the I Survived series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns....

The greatest adventure of all begins here, in the epic prehistoric children's novel from bestselling author, academic and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts....

It was one the most beautiful mountains in America - Mt. St. Helens in Washington State. But what many didn't know was that this peaceful mountain had an explosive past....