Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. TRACKS IN THE SNOW.
When they are lost in a spring blizzard, Erin and Tiffany discover they know more about wilderness survival than they expected.

Burnford, Sheila Every. THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY.
Left with strangers, two dogs and a cat make their way home across the Canadian wilderness.

Choi, Sook Nyul. YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES.
Sookan and her family have survived the Japanese occupation of Korea, but now they face a new terror.

Christopher, John. EMPTY WORLD.
A plague has swept over the world, and Neil seems to be the sole survivor.

Clifford, Eth. THE CURSE OF THE MOONRAKER: A Tale of Survival.
Only ten people survive ship-wreck to be cast ashore on an uninhabited island.

Cole, Brock. THE GOATS.
Stripped naked and abandoned on an island, unpopular summer campers Howie and Laura decide to run away.

Coleman, Michael. WEIRDO’S WAR.
Trapped in a flooding cave with his worst enemy and an unconscious teacher, Daniel relives a life full of being bullied.

Dickinson, Peter. PETER DICKINSON’S SUTH’S STORY; NOLI’S STORY.
The first two books of a new series follow a band of four Neolithic children fleeing their home on the flanks of a volcano.

Eckert, Allan W. INCIDENT AT HAWK’S HILL.
Six-year-old Ben, lost on the prairie, meets a badger who helps him stay alive. Also try RETURN TO HAWK’S HILL for Ben’s later adventures.

Farmer, Nancy. A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.
When Nhamo flees an arranged marriage, she is swept down the Musengezi River and forced to fight for her life.

Fenner, Carol. THE KING OF DRAGONS.
Ian is eleven and homeless, and now his father is missing, too.

George, Jean Craighead. MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.
City-boy Sam has always dreamed of wilderness survival in the Catskill Mountains.

A sequel is THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.
George has also written JULIE OF THE WOLVES, a story of Arctic survival that has several sequels.

Hill, Kirkpatrick. TOUGHBOY AND SISTER.
John and Annie Laurie’s father has never joined them at summer fish camp; now winter is coming and food is running out.

Holman, Felice. THE WILD CHILDREN.
Homeless, desperate, criminal, living in cellars and caves, bands of children survive in the chaos of Russia after the revolution. The author has also written SLAKE’S LIMBO, a story of survival in the subways of New York City.

Knight, Eric. LASSIE COME-HOME.
Lassie, a collie, is sold to a Scottish duke and begins a thousand-mile trek home to her beloved young owner.

Lenski, Lois. INDIAN CAPTIVE: The Story of Mary Jemison.
A girl survives kidnapping and becomes part of the Seneca tribe in this story based on a true incident.

Lewis, C.S. THE HORSE AND HIS BOY.
When Shasta steals a talking horse to run away from slavery in Calorman, the horse persuades him to travel to the land of Narnia.

Macken, Walter. THE FLIGHT OF THE DOVES.
Finn flees across England with his little sister Derval to escape his Uncle Toby.

Marsden, John. TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN.
In the first book of a series, Australian teens return from a camping trip to find their country defeated and occupied by an enemy nation.

Mayne, William. LOW TIDE.
Elizabeth, Charlie, and Wiremu are caught in a tidal wave and washed ashore in New Zealand’s wilderness.

Mazer, Harry. THE WILD KID.
Sammy is slightly retarded and doesn't realize that his rescuer, runaway Kevin, may not want to let Sammy go home.

Mowat, Farley. LOST IN THE BARRENS.
Two boys are tested when they lose themselves in the Arctic.   For older readers, Mowat wrote NEVER CRY WOLF, his true study of Arctic wolves.

Napoli, Donna Jo. STONES IN WATER.
When Roberto and Samuele are taken for forced labor in German army camps, their ordeal is only beginning.

O’Brien, Robert C. Z FOR ZACHARIAH.
Ann seems to be the only survivor of nuclear devastation, so at first she welcomes the scientist in the "safe suit" who finds her secluded valley.

O’Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS.
A young Native American girl survives for eighteen years on a tiny island in this classic story.

Paulsen, Gary. HATCHET.
Brian’s airplane crashes in the forest and he is left to survive with no supplies beyond a hatchet. Sequels are THE RIVER, BRIAN’S WINTER, and BRIAN’S RETURN.

Petersen, P.J. GOING FOR THE BIG ONE.
Three teenagers camping out in the High Sierras are found by a wounded man who takes them hostage.

Pevsner, Stella. SING FOR YOUR FATHER, SU PHAN.
Su Phan and her family become refugees, fleeing through Vietnam to escape the American bombers.

Roth-Hano, Ren’ee. TOUCH WOOD: A Girlhood in Occupied France.
Ren’ee and her sisters are hidden in a French convent to escape the Nazis, but nowhere is safe in wartime.

Speare, Elizabeth George. THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER.
Matt has feared the local Indians, but only his new friend Attean can teach him what he needs to know to stay alive.

Steig, William. ABEL’S ISLAND.
A gentleman mouse, swept away in a flood, must survive and endure to return to his dear wife Amanda.

Taylor, Theodore. THE CAY.
When his ship is torpedoed, Phillip is washed ashore with an old black man who becomes Phillip’s "eyes" and his friend. TIMOTHY OF THE CAY is a companion book.

Voigt, Cynthia. HOMECOMING.
Abandoned by their mother in a parking lot, Dicey must lead her brother and sisters in the search for a new home.

Wallace, Bill. RED DOG.
Humans, not mountain lions, are the most dangerous threats to Adam’s family, settlers in the Wyoming territory.

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE.
In the mad scramble to escape Korea after the war, Yoko, her mother, and sister are separated from the rest of the family.

Westall, Robert. THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA.
After his house is destroyed by a bomb, Harry heads up the coast of wartime England with only an abandoned dog for company.