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1) The Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery,...
3) When technology fails: a manual for self-reliance, sustainability, and surviving the long emergency
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Provides information that will help the average person prepare for survival in a long term emergency or disaster.. This book offers basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions. In an era of super-storms, burgeoning population, massive earthquakes, global warming, and record-breaking floods and droughts, more and...
4) Homecoming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Voigt's first novel--and the introduction to her Tillerman saga--the four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New England to their paternal grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home. An ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults.
8) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Language
English
Description
"The indispensable, indestructible guide for surviving life's sudden turns for the worse. Survival experts provide illustrated, step-by-step instructions on what you need to know FAST: How to fend off a shark ; how to take a punch ; how to deliver a baby in a taxicab ; how to survive a poisonous snake attack ; how to jump from a moving car ; how to identify a bomb ; how to escape from killer bees ; how to survive if your parachute fails to open and...
Author
Publisher
Clear Light Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Self-reliance, sustainability, present trends, possible futures, emergency survival, supplies/preparations, metal working, utensils, engineering/machines/materials, water, food, shelter & buildings, first aid, low-tech medicine & healing, clothing & textiles, energy, heat & power, better living through low-tech chemistry..
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...
Author
Publisher
Unknown
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This book is for everyone thinking about or planning to do a long walk, like the Camino Frances from southern France to Santiago de Compostela a distance of 800 km or nearly 500 miles. The focus is on preparation and so you will have the best chance to successfully reach your destination pain and injury free. Many fail to complete the walk.Mark has walked 5 Camino routes in France, Spain and Portugal as have the other contributors. The book will help...
14) Dress 'Em Out
Author
Publisher
Stoeger Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
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15) Poppy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Presents nearly eight thousand helpful suggestions, instructions, and skills that will help people survive in the wilderness, with information on building shelter, staying warm, finding food, navigation, tying knots, avoiding dangerous animals, and more.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Could you survive in a life-threatening situation? It depends on how much you know about survival. Sometimes the truth is more complicated than we originally thought. Get the real facts about surviving dangerous situations, and drop the fibs!