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Youth Staff Picks March 2017 The theme is survival this month. Read up and come to our Deserted Island Survival Science program on March 13th at 10 AM. Register your 1st through 5th graders online or call us!
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Another kind of hurricane
by Tamara Ellis Smith
Two boys from very different worlds—a black boy who loses his home during Hurricane Katrina and a white boy from Vermont who loses his best friend in a tragic accident—find healing through their unlikely friendship.
Call Number: JF SMITH, TAMARA E.
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Into the killing seas
by Michael P Spradlin
After stowing away on a U.S. Navy ship in the hope of returning home, Patrick and his younger brother Teddy become stranded in the war-torn Pacific by Japanese torpedoes and wait for rescue as hunger, dehydration and sharks increasingly threaten their survival.
Call Number: JF SPRADLIN, MICHAEL P.
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I survived the Hindenburg disaster, 1937
by Lauren Tarshis
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The Hindenburg is doomed. And so, it seems, is Hugo. Will he survive this historic disaster?
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Mission Titanic
by Jude Watson
At only seventeen years old, Ian Kabra is head of the Cahills, the most powerful family in the world. Ian knows he's an ideal leader and the only man enough for the job. There's just one small problem: He's already messed up big-time. A Cahill from the past calling himself the Outcast has risen to challenge Ian with an impossible test. The Outcast has re-created four of history's greatest disasters and dared Ian to stop him. If Ian and his allies can't decipher the Outcast's hints in time, innocent people will die.
Call Number: JF THIRTY-NINE CLUES V.1
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Stink Moody in master of disaster
by Megan McDonald
Camping out in his backyard in the hope of spotting a comet that has been making headlines, Stink is frightened by a report of an asteroid hitting Russia and begins making paranoid preparations for an apocalyptic event.
Call Number: JF MCDONALD, MEGAN
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Titanic : April 1912
by Kathleen Duey
Taking a job in the galley of the Titanic to earn his passage from Ireland to America, Gavin teams up with grieving orphan Karolina when the doomed ship's collision with an iceberg threatens their survival.
Call Number: JF DUEY, KATHLEEN
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Animals helping after disasters
by Jennifer Zeiger
For thousands of years, animals have lived side by side with people, helping humans to achieve incredible things. In this exciting new True Book series, readers will find out what role animals such as dogs, horses, and monkeys are continuing to play in human lives around the world.
Call Number: J636 ZEI
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Finding your way
by Neil Champion
A very useful book that gives essential survival tips for navigation in the wild, including using natural means such as the sun and stars and using technology such as compasses and GPS receivers.
Call Number: J613.69 CHA
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Survivor's science on an island
by Peter D. Riley
Describes the islands of the world, explains why people go to islands, and shows what to do to survive in an emergency on an island.
Call Number: J613.69 RIL
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What was the San Francisco Earthquake?
by Dorothy Hoobler
A series presented in the same format and designed for the same audience as the phenomenally successful Who Was...? series offers compelling, easy-to-read accounts of historical events that changed our world and includes 16 pages of photos and reproductions as well as illustrations.
Call Number: J979.461 HOO
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Ashfall
by Mike Mullin
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a new society.
Call Number: TEEN MULLIN, MIKE
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Beauty queens
by Libba Bray
When a plane full of teenage beauty queens crashes on a desert island, stranding them away from tiaras and technology, their inherently competitive natures combine with the wild challenges they encounter in survival-testing and hilarious ways.
Call Number: TEEN BRAY, LIBBA
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The compound
by S. A. Bodeen
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
Call Number: TEEN BODEEN, S.A.
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The dead & the gone
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
In this companion to Life As We Knew It, the events that take place after an asteroid hits the moon and sets off a chain of events from devastating climate changes are told through the experiences of seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he deals with the horrors as they unfold in his New York City neighborhood.
Call Number: TEEN PFEFFER, SUSAN B.
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The distance between lost and found
by Kathryn Holmes
Abandoned in the wake of rumors about a scandalous relationship, sophomore Hallie becomes lost in the Smoky Mountains with a former friend whom she must trust in order to reach safety.
Call Number: TEEN HOLMES, KATHRYN
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The lifeboat clique
by Kathy Parks
Trapped on a small boat drifting out to sea with her ex-best friend and a band of popular kids when they are stranded by a natural disaster, outcast Denver wonders if dehydration or the girl she once loved like a sister will kill her before they are rescued.
Call Number: TEEN PARKS, KATHY
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