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• Wilder Girls

  Power, Rory

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  Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.

• I Am Still Alive

  Marshall, Kate Alice,

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  Build shelter. Find water. Make fire. Seek revenge.

• Be Not Far From Me

  McGinnis, Mindy,

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  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.

• The 5th Wave

  Yancey, Richard

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  Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

• Alone

  Freeman, Megan E.

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  When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paradise on Fire

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker

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  Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.

• Any Sign of Life

  Carson, Rae,

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  Paige Miller fears she is the only person left alive in Ohio until she meets a handful of other survivors, and together they struggle with the knowledge that their new reality is the first part of an alien invasion.

• The Distance Between Lost and Found

  Holmes, Kathryn, 1982-

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  Sophomore Hallie Calhoun, her former friend Jonah, and her new friend Rachel leave a church youth group hike in the Great Smoky Mountains and become lost for five days, struggling to survive.

• Aftershocks

  Reichardt, Marisa,

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  When a major earthquake hits California, trapping seventeen-year-old Ruby with Charlie, a near-stranger, in a laundromat, they struggle to stay alive and hopeful with only memories and each other's voices to sustain them.

• Genuine Fraud

  Lockhart, E.

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  Imogen lives at the Playa Grande Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She spends her days working out in the hotel gym and telling other guests how she was forced out of Stanford. But Imogen isn't really Imogen. She's Jule. And she's on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hatchet

  Paulsen, Gary

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  After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

• Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves

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  Long, Meg,

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  On a frozen wasteland of a plant, seventeen-year-old Sena and a she-wolf, Iska, are on the run from a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, but as they try to escape one question drives them relentlessly forward--where do you turn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Map for Wrecked Girls

  Taylor, Jessica, 1985-

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  Stranded on a deserted island with a boy they barely know, sisters Emma and Henri have to find a way to survive together, even after a betrayal back home ruined their relationship.