During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

When cut off from their kin and lost in the desert 200,000 years ago, Suth and five other orphans struggle to survive and to find their way to safety.

Describes several dangerous situations in which ingenuity and determination proved to be important survival skills.

A brother and sister struggle to survive the rigors of Death Valley after their wagon breaks an axle and they set out alone to find help for their stranded family and injured father.

When two young strangers meet by chance on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, they struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting, and chaos.

In 1851 in Louisiana, Paul is abandoned in the bayous by his older brothers and it is up to his lame Cajun friend Lily to find him.

In 1892, Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.

In 1847, when her mother's remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.

To avoid further encounters with a bully on the ski slope, Jarod and his younger sister cross over the ski area boundary, become stranded in a snow cave, and fearfully wait to be rescued.

After the destruction of their float plane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dear friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of Northwest Territories of Canada.

Fictionalized account of the wreck of the steamship Ethie which occurred on the remote western coast of Newfoundland in December 1919 and in which the dog Skipper proved his heroism.

When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.

First-person survivor accounts of three disasters, the 1914 shipwreck of the Empress of Ireland, the 1928 crash of the airship Italia, and the 1930 crash of a dirigible.

When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.

Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.

After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.

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.

When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.

Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts rescues two children from a forest fire, but then she must save herself and them from ruthless poachers.

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

Tyler Duvall thinks his vacation at his uncle's cabin in Alaska will be fun, but when a grizzly bear attacks the cabin, Tyler must face his worst fears or be eaten alive.

A shipwrecked family learns to live off the natural vegetation on their island and refuses to leave when a ship arrives to take them home.

A collection of ten fiction and nonfiction stories of survival that were
originally published in "Read" magazine.


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