Catalog Search Results
Find reading recommendations, read-alikes, discussion guides, "If You're a Fan Of" book lists, and more. Search by keyword and reading level (Lexile).
NoveList K-8: Children's fiction only.
NoveList: Fiction only.
NoveList Plus: Includes audiobooks and nonfiction books.
1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
3) The river
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
Author
Language
English
Description
Flying together on a storm-ravaged night, a gifted surgeon facing a painful separation from his wife and a young magazine writer on her way to her wedding are plunged into a life-and-death ordeal. As the days turn into weeks on the unforgiving mountain, the two heal from their physical wounds even as they are forced to confront surprising and painful truths about their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom. When their paths converge in route to the ship that promises salvation, Joana, Emilia, and Florian find their strength, courage, and trust in one another tested with each step closer...
6) Life of Pi
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Language
English
Description
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves and pull him in. The man, strange and quiet, claims to be the Lord. Is the man who he claims to be? What actually caused the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell? Years later, when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat-- the...
9) Homecoming
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rumor Has It, Rescue My Heart, and the Lucky Harbor novels...
Statistically speaking, these years are supposed to be the sexual highlight of Dorie Anderson’s life. So where are the highlights already?
One phone call has turned Dorie’s dead-end life into an adventure: she’s won a trip on a singles cruise to Fiji. With her cutest outfits packed and the...
Statistically speaking, these years are supposed to be the sexual highlight of Dorie Anderson’s life. So where are the highlights already?
One phone call has turned Dorie’s dead-end life into an adventure: she’s won a trip on a singles cruise to Fiji. With her cutest outfits packed and the...
12) Brian's Return
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
Author
Language
English
Description
A spirited woman survives the sinking of the Titanic only to find herself embroiled in the tumultuous aftermath of that great tragedy. Tess is one of the last people to escape into a lifeboat. When an enterprising reporter turns her employer, Lady Duff Gordon, into an object of scorn, Tess is torn between loyalty and the truth.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many resourceful and imaginative methods--building a tree house, finding food such as coconuts, sugarcane, honey, and potatoes, taming animals and other forms of securing themselves against danger.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 4
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield.
16) The cay
Author
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
17) Rivers of gold
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alaska in the late 1800s: Miranda Colton, presumed dead, finds herself under the care of a native Alaskan and a studious botanist from England, Teddy Davenport. Miranda only longs to find her friends and continue north. She fears that her chances are diminishing with each passing day. Teddy is deeply committed to his research of the unique landscape of the rugged Alaskan frontier. But despite his intentions, Miranda's presence awakens a deep tenderness...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, a man who survived by himself for almost five years on an uninhabited Pacific island off the coast of Chile, Jules Verne's masterpiece, The Mysterious Island, is a tale of five men and a dog who escape Civil War Richmond in a balloon during a storm. Landing on a faraway and uncharted island, they overcome nature's harsh elements to create from scratch a civilization for themselves. Peculiar things start...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
In WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing
Can't find what you're looking for? Search WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing to search libraries outside our area. Contact your local library to place a request.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request