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Adventure and Survival
The books on this list deal with the genre adventure and survival, and are geared towards teens.

Not if I save you first
by Ally Carter

After six years of no word from her best friend, Logan, he shows up on the doorstep of the remote Alaskan cabin Maddie and her father live in with an assailant in pursuit
Refugee
by Alan Gratz

Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together. 
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish lieutenant
by Tony Cliff

Nineteenth-century adventurer Delilah Dirk plots to rob a rich and corrupt sultan in Constantinople with the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim
Threatened
by Eliot Schrefer

Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself
Dry
by Neal Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive
Passenger
by Alexandra Bracken

When a violin prodigy who has lost everything wakes up on a ship in another time period, a man who wants to escape a life of servitude is forced to confront his past while keeping his former captors from claiming a stolen object of untold value. 
Ashes in the snow
by Ruta Sepetys

In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers
The edge
by Roland Smith

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-18-year-old climbers from around the world, but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard. 
Notes from my captivity
by Kathy Parks

Aspiring teenage journalist Adrienne Cahill travels to Siberia to debunk legendary claims of a family of hermits living in the wilderness, but when disaster strikes, Adrienne winds up being held captive by the family she didn't believe existed
The lovely and the lost
by Jennifer Barnes

Adopted into the family that discovered her as a feral child, Kira joins their search-and-rescue business and privately struggles with human interactions before the appearance of her estranged father prompts her search in an unbridled wilderness for a missing child. 
The survival list
by Courtney Sheinmel

Devastated by her older sister’s inexplicable suicide, a teen searches for answers on a mysterious list of names and places in California, where she teams up with a boy who helps her uncover astonishing family secrets. 
I am still alive
by Kate Alice Marshall

Stranded in the woods after her cabin burns down and her father is killed, a disabled girl and her dog fervently prepare for the coming winter while plotting revenge on the person who murdered her father
As easy as falling off the face of the earth
by Lynne Rae Perkins

Journeying by train to summer camp only to find that the camp program has been cancelled, Ry finds himself stranded without resources in the wilderness and invents a new definition of summer vacation. By the Newbery-winning author of Criss Cross. 
Around the world in eighty days
by Jules Verne

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes
You are the everything
by Karen Rivers

When Elyse Schmidt and her crush, Josh Harris, are the sole survivors of a plane crash, she believes that everything is perfect and their love story is meant to be, but she finds that fate is not always what you expect it to be
King of scars
by Leigh Bardugo

When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it
13 little blue envelopes
by Maureen Johnson

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Flight #116 is down!
by Caroline B. Cooney

An award-winning dramatic thriller finds a young girl confronting her fears and making heroic efforts at the terrifying scene of a crashed 747. Reissue.
Renegades
by Marissa Meyer

As she nears her goal of avenging the Renegades, who overthrew the villains to establish order from ruin, Nova grows close to justice-seeking Renegade Adrian, but her allegiance to the villains could destroy them both
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson

After being kidnapped by his villainous and miserly uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes with the help of Jacobite fugitive Alan Breck and becomes involved in the struggle of Scottish Highlanders against English rule. Reissue. (A Masterpiece Theatre presentation, airing Fall 2005) (Literature)
The Wednesday wars
by Gary D. Schmidt

Set during the 1967-1968 school year, Holling Hoodhood finds his seventh-grade year one filled with many challenges as he spends afternoons with Mrs. Baker discussing the plays of Shakespeare, defends his tasty cream puffs from a determined bully, and prepares for his big debut in the school play--all while the issue of Vietnam looms on a daily basis. 50,000 first printing.
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness.

 
The traitor's game
by Jennifer A Nielsen

Kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to find a legendary blade capable of killing the despot, Kestra has her own plans and tries to evade her companion Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors
Touching Spirit Bear
by Ben Mikaelsen

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Robinson Crusoe
by Deanna McFadden

Presents an abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure
by William Goldman

A classic swashbuckling romance retells the tale of a drunken swordsman and a gentle giant who come to the aid of Westley, a handsome farm boy, and Buttercup, a princess in dire need of rescue from the evil schemers surrounding her. 
The hobbit : or, There and back again,
by J. R. R. Tolkien

The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.
Lord of the flies : a novel
by William Golding

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
Grasshopper jungle : a history
by Andrew Smith

Diligently chronicling colorful versions of his family's history, 16-year-old Austin and his best friend, Robby, accidentally trigger a disaster that could potentially destroy humanity by unleashing an army of giant praying mantises on their small hometown, a catastrophe they evaluate from inside an underground bunker.
JMS 9/2020

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