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Author
Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this volume of Maker Comics, First Second's DIY graphic novel series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for seven projects that will help you survive in the wild! Sophia and Alonso have been packed off to their grandpa's for a fishing trip, and they're dreading spending a whole day in the woods without any cell service. But Grandpa opens their eyes to the wonders of the outdoors, and its dangers -- from tick bites to hypothermia. And when a...
42) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
43) The grey
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After several men from an oil drilling team survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness, they discover that they are being stalked by a pack of wolves.
45) Warrior's refuge
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Graystripe and his friend, Mille, are finally on their way. Finding the ThunderClan is a lot harder than they'd imagined, though.
46) Above all else
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are long-time friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest--with Tate's father and another friend; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage and determination"--Provided by publisher.
Rose and Tate have trained their whole lives to summit Mount...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
48) Hunting time
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons--even those who don't wish to be found--Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection. The reason for Allison's panicked flight...
49) Fever, 1793
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies.
In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With her father away and her brother injured, it is up to little Pip to find food for her hungry siblings and mother mouse, but it is a hard winter and the only place where she is likely to find Christmas dinner is at Land's End, where the people live.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
Author
Series
Under Tower Peak volume 2
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Tommy Smith, Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra wilderness guide, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call to help find him. What he learns is that his love for Dave's daughter, his old flame Sarah Cathcart, never died, but the country where he grew up is undergoing change. When Sarah confides that her husband, a smooth-talking entrepreneur,...
57) One last shot
Author
Series
Alaska Air One Rescue volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When country music star Oaken Fox joins survivalist Mike Grizz's new adventure show in the Alaskan wilderness, he just wants to boost his fan base. But when tragedy strikes and Air One Rescue must save them, Oaken wants to quit. Too bad his producer has other plans -- signing him on with Air One Rescue as a recruit and making a reality show. EMT Boo Kingston did not join Air One Rescue to train a celebrity. But she's a rookie to the team, so yes,...
Author
Publisher
Mountain House Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Getting the message that my son had not returned from a planned hike in the San Bernardino Mountains and that he was missing was the most paralyzing call I've ever received. I learned very quickly how a rescue operation is put together as we watched skilled professionals and countless volunteers search day after day for any sight of Eric and his coworker, Gabrielle. Were they alive? Were they hurt? Why hadn't Eric found his way to us? These were...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders who has already won a scholarship to attend the Alaska Young Explorers program and learn explorer skills in an Alaskan wilderness camp; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5000 dollars--money that Nita's family could really use--but on the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge turns deadly when they find themselves lost in the fog while...
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