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Survival

IF YOU FIND ME

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Murdoch
Author's First Name: 
Emily
Publisher: 
St. Martin's
Publication Date: 
2013
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Carey and her much younger sister Jenessa are abandoned by their mother in a remote area. They have "hidden" with her for 10 years in a primative camper van. Rescued by their father, and abruptly brought into a modern world of schools, new step-family and friends, they have much to overcome. A sensatively told yet compelling story of survival. 14 and Up. Kathie Weinberg

CHICKADEE

Chickadee
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Erdrich
Author's First Name: 
Louise
Illustrator's First Name: 
Louise
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Erdrich
Publisher: 
Harper
Publication Date: 
2012

Kidnapped by a pair of rascals and taken from Minnesota to Plains country in 1866, 8-year-old Chickadee works his way back to his grieving Ojibwe family. Like others in the Birchbark House series, Erdrich’s pencil drawings enliven this adventure.

THE DROWNED CITIES

The Drowned Cities
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Bacigalupi
Author's First Name: 
Paolo
Publisher: 
Little, Brown
Publication Date: 
2012

A boy, girl, and fierce half-man struggle against child soldiers in this companion to Shipbreaker featuring political chaos and the repercussions of global warming. Their hellish war-torn jungle surrounds former Washington, DC.

TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hopkinson
Author's First Name: 
Deborah
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2012

This gripping, meticulously researched, compassionate recounting of the night the Titantic, a supposedly unsinkable luxury liner, met with disaster includes eyewitness accounts, primary sources, diagrams, and archival photographs. Mark Bramhall's and Peter Altschuler’s audio narration effectively heighten the emotion and drama of this terrible event.

BEAUTY QUEENS [AUDIOBOOK]

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Bray
Author's First Name: 
Libba
Narrator's First Name: 
Libba
Narrator's Last Name: 
Bray
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2011

TRAPPED

trapped
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Northrop
Author's First Name: 
Michael
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Month: 
February
Publication Date: 
2011
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