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Outdoor Pursuits:
Do you wish you could spend all your time outside, or are you happiest inside on the couch? Either way,
take your imagine outside with one of these books about teen surviving in the great outdoors.
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Gutman, Dan
Getting Air
After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends
crash-land the plane and try to survive the wilderness until help arrives.
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Hokenson, Terry
The Winter Road
Seventeen-year-old Willa, still grieving over the death of her older brother and the neglect of her father,
decides to fly a small plane to fetch her mother from Northern Ontario, but when the plane crashes she is
all alone in the snowy wilderness.
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Mason, Prue
Camel Rider
Two expatriates living in a Middle Eastern country, twelve-year-old Adam from Australia and Walid from
Bangladesh, must rely on one another when war breaks out and they find themselves in the desert with no water,
little food and no common language.
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McCaughrean, Geraldine
The White Darkness: a Novel
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone discovers that
he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of the
hollow Earth.
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Osborne, Mary Pope
Adaline Falling Star
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.
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Salisbury, Graham
Night of the Howling Dogs
In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills
put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a Tsunami.
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Smith, Roland
Peak
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Tullson, Diane
The Darwin Expedition
Following an accident on a remote logging road, Liam and Tej must call on all their resources to survive
the elements and escape the bear that is following them.
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List created April, 2008.
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