Cañon City Public Library

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, 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. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...

Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic's maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner.

"A riveting WWII account of survival at sea-Book 4 in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours."--

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

Tells the story of the 1972 plane crash that stranded several members of a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes Mountains for two months, struggling to survive.

Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.

"Photos, illustrations, and diagrams help you explore the scientific techniques that researchers used to locate the wreck of the Titanic and reconstruct what happened to it." -- Back cover.

Contains third person accounts of people who survived shipwrecks throughout history, identifies some of the reasons why ships sink, and includes photographs, a glossary, and a list of related organizations.

"Gives readers an up-close look at the harrowing story of the 807th Medical Evacuation Squadron's escape from behind Nazi Lines after surviving a plane crash in enemy territory"--