Explore Nature
The beloved wild
by Melissa Ostrom

In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long
The other side of lost
by Jessi Kirby

When Mari Turner experiences major backlash after revealing to her thousands of online followers that her social media persona is all a lie, she impulsively decides to get away from it all by hiking the entire John Muir trail, which she and her late cousin Bri had planned to do together, in an effort to find the self she fears she’s lost. Simultaneous eBook.
Starry eyes
by Jenn Bennett

When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive
The words in my hands
by Asphyxia

Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says
I am still alive
by Kate Alice Marshall

Stranded in the woods with few supplies and survival skills, a disabled girl and her dog fervently prepare for the coming winter while evaluating how her mother's death, a dysfunctional foster-care system and her survivalist father led to her predicament. Simultaneous eBook.
This poison heart
by Kalynn Bayron

While learning to control her gift, the ability to grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms, Briseis must use her powers to save her family from a centuries-old curse as dark forces surround her. 85,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
Dry
by Neal Shusterman

When a longtime drought in California escalates to catastrophic levels, turning her once-quiet suburban street into a warzone of desperation, a teen is forced to make life and death decisions to protect her family. By the National Book Award-winning author of Challenger Deep. Simultaneous eBook.
Zen and gone
by Emily France

Watching over her little sister while her mother works, Essence bonds with a tourist boy who accompanies her on a three-day survival game in the Rocky Mountains, where she encounters unexpected dangers at the same time her sister goes missing. Simultaneous eBook.
Found
by Joseph Bruchac

Nick, a Native American teenager, is on the run from outlaws and must use his survival expertise to stay safe
Hostile territory
by Paul Greci

Stranded by a catastrophic earthquake in the Alaskan wilderness, four teen campers observe ominous military activity in the distance and realize that America is under siege. By the author of Surviving Bear Island. Simultaneous eBook.
Wildfire
by Carrie Mac

Two lifelong friends on the brink of becoming something more share life-risking adventures before organizing a 10-day backpacking trip through the mountains of Washington State, where they become trapped inside a wildfire. Simultaneous eBook.
The wild
by Owen Laukkanen

Seventeen-year-old Dawn and a group of other teens must survive a "wilderness therapy" camp in Washington State as things quickly and drastically go wrong
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. 50,000 first printing.
Be not far from me
by Mindy McGinnis

Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people
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