Adventure

Outdoor Adventure Books
If You Liked Hatchet (Survival Fiction)




Blackwood. Wild Timothy.

Timothy, reluctantly accompanies his father on a camping trip and, when he becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving.



Carter. Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

A 15 year old boy and his diabetic cousin enjoy a canoe trip in lake country until it becomes a fight for survival.



Cotton. Quake!

A girl visits with her best friend but she has to take her little brother along when they are caught in an earthquake. Can they survive on their own?


Dygard. Wilderness Peril.

When two boys, stumble across stolen money, their vacation turns into a nightmare.


George. My Side of the Mountain.

A young boy lives alone in the Catskill Mountains.



Julie of the Wolves

While running away from an unwanted marriage, an Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.



Francis, Survival at Big Shark Key.

Grady and his family work together to survive a violent hurricane.



Golding. Lord of the Flies.

Three boys shipwrecked on an island descend unexpectedly into a psychological and physical horror of savagery and evil.


Gutman. Getting Air.

After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, Jimmy and his friends land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.



Hill, Kirkpatrick. Toughboy and Sister

Their father’s death strands two children at a fishing cabin, where they spend a summer coping with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.


Hobbs. Downriver.

Jessie rebellious students abandon their leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.


Houston. Frozen Fire.

Determined to find his father , a young boy and his friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Arctic.


Howard. The Ostrich Chase.

Although the women are forbidden to participate in the hunt, a young Bushman girl determines to realize her dream of hunting an ostrich.


Kehret. Earthquake Terror.

An earthquake isolates a boy, his sister and dog from the family during a camping trip and he must keep them all alive.


Korman. Island, Dive, Everest (all series).



Lewis, Richard. The Killing Sea.

Two teens are then caught in the disastrous 2004 tsunami.


Marshall. Walkabout.

Two children must survive in the Australian Outback.


Mazer. Cave Under the City.

With their mother in the hospital, two boys take to the streets of New York to escape being sent to a children's shelter.


Napoli. Stones in Water.

A Italian boy and his Jewish friend are captured by Nazis and put to work until they escape and desperately tries to return home to Venice.



Nelson, O.T. The Girl Who Owned a City

A girl assumes leadership after a plague has destroyed everyone over the age of 12.


Smith. Peak.

A boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.


Mikaelson. Touching Spirit Bear.

After his anger erupts into violence, a boy, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative where he is sent to a remote island.



Morey, Walt. Death Walk

A boy sneaks aboard a friend's plane carrying supplies to the Alaskan frontier. Just hours later, he finds himself stranded in the wilderness and on the run from two killers.



O’Brien. Z For Zachariah.

Seemingly the only person left alive after a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.


Phleger. Pilot Down, Presumed Dead.

A man makes a crash landing on a deserted, uncharted island. He fashions crude equipment for survival, but he must find a way to return to civilization.


Roth. The Iceberg Hermit

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.



Salisbury. Night of the Howling Dogs.

Eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.



Skurzynski, Gloria. The National Park Mysteries.



Smith, Roland. Peak.

A boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.


Spy Books
Spy Fiction




Abela, Deborah. Spy Force Series. Mission:in search of the time and space machine



Barnes, Jennifer. The Squad Series. Perfect Cover, Killer Spirit.



Becker, Tom. Darkside, Lifeblood (Series-2)



Butcher. Spy High (series-4)



Carroll, Michael Owen. Quantum Prophecy, The Gathering



Carter. I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. (series-2)



Colfer. Artemis Fowl (Series-5)



Craig. Jimmy Coates: Assassin, Jimmy Coates: Target (series-2)



Deary. Nuclear Winter Man



Higson. Silverfin, Blood Fever, Double or Die (Series-3)



Higgins. Sure Fire.



Horowitz. Stormbreaker. (series-8)



Jinks. Evil Genius, Genius Squad



McNab. Traitor, Payback, Avenger, Meltdown



Muchamore. The Recruit. C.H.E.R.U.B. (series-6)



Patterson. Maximum Ride. (Series-4)



Pearson, Ridley. Steel Trapp



Rose. Framed! (Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator series-6)



Simmons. The Rise of Lubchenko. (series-2)



Spradlin. Live and Let Shop. (Spy Goddess series-2)



Updale, Eleanor. Montmorency: Liar, Thief, Gentleman.



Walden. H.I.V.E., The Overlord Protocol



Young, E.L. STORM: The Infinity Code