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Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.
Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life....
4) Cast Away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
5) First light
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Egan, young lovers leaving a work trip in Alaska to plan their wedding back home in Chicago. Not long into their trip, both engines of their plane catch fire and send them careening into a mountainside in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. Kerry is seriously injured in the accident, and it soon becomes clear that search-and-rescue teams aren't going to find the survivors in time to save her. Daniel--the...
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When your life is a lie, the truth can kill youWhen her fiancés private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Allison Carpenter miraculously survives. But the fight for her life is just beginning. Allison has been living with a terrible secret, a shocking truth that powerful men will kill to keep buried. If they know shes alive, they will come for her. She must make it home.In the small community of Owl Creek, Maine, Maggie Carpenter learns that...
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English
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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the passengers disappear into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
10) Brian's Winter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
13) 65
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive" --Container.
14) The bronzed hawk
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Language
English
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Journalist Kelly McKenna is not above a bit of blackmail to persuade inventor-genius to include her on his experimental-balloon ride to New Mexico.
15) Survival
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Six kids are stuck on a desert island. They have no food, no shelter. Nobody knows they are lost. They must take from the island in order to survive. But what if they're not alone?
16) No fixed line
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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"'... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.' It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...
17) Jungle trek
Author
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
You're on a plane with Guy Dangerous and Scarlett Fox when it crashes in the jungle. Lucky you have a hard head! How will you get back to civilization? It's up to you. Your choices will change the story -- a different adventure every time.
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While the kids plan their next move, an unexpected threat emerges and June gets separated from her friends, dragged miles away from Wakefield to a town overgrown with monstrous vines and never-before-seen creatures. Drawing on her post-apocalyptic survival and action skills--and with the help of some odd new companions--June attempts to make her way back home. But not before she uncovers critical information about the mysterious "Tower." Information...
19) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After making an emergency landing on a war-torn island in the Philippines, where most of the passengers are soon taken hostage, an airplane pilot sets out to rescue them with the help of an accused murderer being transported by the FBI.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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In November 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. The B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S....