Books You Might Like:
Adventure & Survival - Fiction
The dark
ground by Gillian Cross.
Robert wakes up
scratched and naked in a dark forest, remembering only that he had been on an
airplane returning from vacation with his parents, and soon realizes he is not
far from home, but that he has somehow become very small--shorter than a blade
of grass--and the distance to his house seems impossible to travel.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Area 7 by Matthew Reilly.
The President of
the United States travels to the remote Utah desert to inspect the secret base
known as Area 7, but he gets more than he bargained for when he learns hostile
forces have taken over the base.
The stolen
lake by Joan Aiken.
On her way to
England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures
when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern
hemisphere.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
The last of
the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore
A Mohican brave
struggles to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and
Indian War.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 10.3
Sharpe's
battle : Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de O–oro, May 1811 by Bernard Cornwell.
British captain
Richard Sharpe must lead untrained, unequipped ceremonial troops in a fight to
the death when his old foe, French Brigadier General Guy Loup, attacks him
while he heads a battalion of the king of Spain's household guard.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
Sharpe's devil
: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821 by Bernard Cornwell.
Lieutenant
Colonel Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to find his friend Don Blas
Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
The lost world
by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle.
Professor
Challenger tracks down dinosaurs in the South American jungle.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 7.8
The adventures
of Blue Avenger : a novel by Norma
Howe.
On his sixteenth
birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David
Schumacher decides--or does he--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to
find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.2
Blue Avenger
cracks the code by Norma
Howe.
In his new
identity as Blue Avenger, sixteen-year-old David visits Venice, Italy, and
continues to pursue various crusades, including trying to solve the mystery of
who really wrote Shakespeare's works.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
Down the Yukon
by Will Hobbs.
In the wake of
Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend
Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's
Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Leaving
Protection by Will Hobbs.
Sixteen-year-old
Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off
southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his
mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim
to Alaska and the Northwest.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Wild Man
Island by Will Hobbs.
After
fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the
wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on
Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected
animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric
immigrants to America.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The wreckers
by Iain Lawrence.
Shipwrecked after
a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and
himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town
where they are stranded.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.2
Life of Pi : a
novel by Yann Martel.
Pi Patel, having
spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper,
sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his
life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him
adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
All the pretty
horses by Cormac
McCarthy.
The story of
young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along
with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a
place where dreams are paid for in blood.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.9
Moby Dick, or,
The white whale by Herman
Melville Captain Ahab's
determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession
driving him to disaster.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 10.3
The voyage of
the Frog by Gary Paulsen.
When David goes
out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind,
he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he
works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 6.0
The Transall
saga by Gary Paulsen.
While backpacking
in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is
transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and
skills to survive.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
After a plane
crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness,
learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and
learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Brian's winter
by Gary Paulsen.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
Brian's hunt by Gary Paulsen.
Two years after
having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old
returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
Pilot down,
presumed dead by Marjorie
Phleger.
A young pilot who
crash lands on an island off Baja California uses his ingenuity to survive.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 7.0
The iceberg
hermit by Arthur Roth.
Shipwrecked in
1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for
companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle
for survival.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 6.2
A journey to
the center of the earth
by Jules Verne.
Three men dare to
adventure into a subterranean world full of danger and beauty. They discover
many unusual things on their trip to the Earth's mysterious core.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 9.9
Blue fingers :
a ninja's tale by Cheryl
Aylward Whitesel.
Having failed
apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja,
where he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai have burned his former
village.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Adventure & Survival - Nonfiction
The terrible
hours : the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history by Peter Maas.
Offers a detailed
account of U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen's attempts to
save thirty-three men who were trapped in a sunken submarine during the first
days of World War II.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.6
In harm's way
: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its
survivors by Doug
Stanton.
Tells the story
of the "USS Indianapolis," a battle cruiser torpedoed in the South Pacific
by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, shortly after delivering parts of the
atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima; and discusses the heroic
struggles of sailors who survived the blast to stay alive in the sea for nearly
five days before help arrived.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.3
Black Hawk
down : a story of modern war by Mark
Bowden.
Chronicles the
experiences of ninety-nine American soldiers who were trapped in the city of
Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3
Into the wild by Jon Krakauer.
Tells the story
of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan
wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four
months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.1
The perfect
storm : a true story of men against the sea by Sebastian Junger.
Uses interviews,
memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days
of the crew of the Andrea Gail, a
fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October
1991.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 7.4
In the heart
of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Tells the story
of the Essex, a whaleship that set sail from Nantucket in 1819 on a routine
voyage, and was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the South Pacific,
setting the twenty-man crew adrift in three tiny boats.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.8
Alive by Piers Paul Read.
Discusses the
ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.7
The heart of
the Antarctic : the farthest south expedition, 1907-1909 by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Shackleton's own
thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and the race to reach the
South Pole.
Winterdance :
the fine madness of running the Iditarod
by Gary Paulsen.
The author's
account of his most ambitious quest, to know a world beyond his knowing, to
train for and run the Iditarod.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Escapes! by Laura Scandiffio
A collection of
ten true escape stories from around the world and across the ages,
including: Breakout from the
Bastille -- "From here there is no escape--" -- Though Traitor's Gate
-- Fugitives in Iran -- Falling from the sky -- Under siege -- The Gladiator
War -- Over the Wall -- Slaves of the Sahara -- Tickets to freedom.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.4
True escape
and survival stories by
Gurney Williams III
Presents accounts
of seven instances of escape and survival in addition to offering tips for
surviving in the desert, forest, jungle, and mountains.
Two years
before the mast : a personal narrative by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Recounts the joys
and hardships of a sailor's life in a daily journal written on a journey around
Cape Horn to California between 1834 and 1836 aboard the brig Pilgrim.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 7.7
Abandon
ship! by
Hal Butler
Captures the glory
that is the sea and chronicles seventeen of the most tragic and unusual ship
disasters in maritime history.
Magellan and
the first voyage around the world by
Nancy Smiler Levinson.
Magellan is
universally recognized as a master navigator and a scientific explorer of great
courage and daring. His amazing
journey, a triumph of the human spirit, is recounted here in vivid and exciting
detail.
Guts : the
true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books by Gary Paulsen.
The author
relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about
the character, Brian Robeson.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.5
Zero to sixty
: the motorcycle journey of a lifetime by
Gary Paulsen
An autobiography
in which the author reflects upon his life and tells about the experiences he
had and insights he gained while taking a five-thousand-mile road trip on a
Harley-Davidson, from New Mexico to Alaska.
Caught by the
sea : my life on boats by
Gary Paulsen.
A memoir in which
author Gary Paulsen discusses his lifelong love for the sea and shares his
adventures exploring the oceans.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.3