574.5 MAR
Markle, Sandra. Exploring Winter. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,1984. A collection of winter-time activities which include stories and facts about animals and survival, instructions for building a snow shelter and making instruments to measure the weather, as well as games, riddles, and puzzles.

613.6 ANS
Ansell, Rod. To Fight the Wild. 1st American ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. A man struggles to survive on his own in one of the most isolated corners of Australia for two months before he is rescued.

979.4 CAL
Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party. New York : Clarion Books, c1999. Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937-. Poppy. New York : Orchard Books, c1995. Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

FIC BLA
Blackwood, Gary L. Wild Timothy. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,1987. Thirteen-year-old Timothy, more interested in reading than in physical activity, reluctantly accompanies his enthusiastic father on a camping trip and, when he accidently becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving on his own.

FIC BUR
Burks, Brian. Walks Alone. 1st ed. San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1998. After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.

FIC COL
Cole, Brock. The Goats. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. 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 runaway and disappear without a trace.

FIC DEF
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe. Milwaukee : Raintree Childrens Books, 1978. During a voyage in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for almost thirty years on a desert island before being rescued.

FIC DIC
Dickinson, Peter, 1927-. Mana's Story. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1999. Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.

FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. New York : Orchard Books,c1996. While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

FIC GEO 
George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Trophy ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1973, c1972. Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack.

FIC GEO 
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. My Side of the Mountain. New York : Dutton, c1988. A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

FIC GIF
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's Song. New York : Delacorte,c2000. When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive.

FIC HEN
Heneghan, James, 1930-. Wish Me Luck. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.

FIC HIL
Hill, Kirkpatrick. Toughboy and Sister. 1st ed. New York : Toronto : New York : M.K. McElderry Books ; Collier Macmillan ; Maxwell Macmillan, c1990. The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.

FIC HIL
Hill, Kirkpatrick. Winter Camp. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K.McElderry Books, c1993. Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp.

FIC HOL
Holman, Felice. The Wild Children. New York : Scribner, c1983. Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a betterlife.

FIC HOU
Houston, James A., 1921-. Frozen Fire : a Tale of Courage. NewYork : M.K. McElderry, [1986], c1977. Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.

FIC LAW
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The Wreckers. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998. Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town where they are stranded.

FIC MAC
McClung, Robert M. Hugh Glass, Mountain Man. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1990. A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.

FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. Tomorrow, When the War Began. 1st American ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.

FIC MAY
Mayhar, Ardath. Medicine Walk. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,1985. After his father's heart attack and the resulting crash of their small plane, Burr must travel alone through forty miles of summer desert with little food and water.

FIC MAZ
Mazer, Harry. The Cave Under the City. New York : Crowell, c1986. With their mother in the hospital and their father's whereabouts unknown, two boys take to the streets of New York to escape being sent to a children's shelter.

FIC MOE
Moeri, Louise. Save Queen of Sheba. New York : Dutton, c1981. After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.

FIC MYE
Myers, Edward. Climb or Die. 1st Hyperion Paperback ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 1996, c1994. After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother Jake must scale a mountain to find help.

FIC NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Stones in Water. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1997. After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.

FIC OSB
Osborne, Mary Pope. Adaline Falling Star. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2000. Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.

FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. The Voyage of the Frog. New York : Orchard Books, c1989. When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.

FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Winter. New York : Delacorte Press, c1996. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

FIC PAU 
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. New York : Bradbury Press, c1987.  After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

FIC PHI
Phipson, Joan. Hit and Run. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1985. Sixteen-year-old Roland's hit-and-run accident in a borrowed car sends him fleeing into the wild Australian countryside where he struggles for both survival and self-respect.

FIC ROT
Roth, Arthur J., 1925-. The Iceberg Hermit. New York, : Four Winds Press, [1974]. Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

FIC RUB
Rubinstein, Gillian. Galax-Arena : a Novel. 1st American ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-defying stunts for the amusement of the inhabitants of the planet Vexak.

FIC SPE
Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-. Call it Courage. New York, : The Macmillan company, 1940.

FIC SPE 
Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1984],c1983. 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.

FIC STE
Steig, William, 1907-. Abel's Island. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

FIC TAY
Taylor, Theodore, 1922-. The Cay. [1st ed.]. Garden City,N.Y., : Doubleday, [1969]. When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

FIC THE
Thesman, Jean. When the Road Ends. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1992. Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own.

FIC WYS
Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818. The Swiss Family Robinson. Chicago, : Childrens Press, [c1968]. Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

FIC YAT
Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-. Sarah Whitcher's Story. [1st ed.].New York :: E. P. Dutton, [1971]. Describes the search for and adventures of a young girl lost in a New Hampshire forest in the pioneer days.

FIC ZIN
Zindel, Paul. Raptor. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1998. Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utah raptor.