Adventure

Ready to go back in time? Explore a new world? Try to survive in the wilderness? Scare yourself? Maybe just ready to read a good book? Enjoy an adventure!

This booklist was contributed by Appleton Public Library Children's Services Staff, 12/06 

Survival Adventure

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry(1940)Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.

The Cay by Theodore Taylor(1989)When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen(1987)After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Hideout by Peg Kehret(2001)After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a deserted cabin which appears to be just the place to hide from his problems.

Island by Gordon Korman(2005)Book one: Shipwreck -- Book two: Survival -- Book three: Escape.

Julie of the Wolves by Jean George(1972)While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

My Side of the Mountain by Jean George(1988)A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare(1983)Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.