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YF MCKER
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On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one.
Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance, trapped and crushed by ice,...
Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance, trapped and crushed by ice,...
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Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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J 979.8 SANDL
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In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many months later. Here is the incredible...
4) Trapped
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YF NORTH
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YF NORTH
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Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
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Pitu novels volume 1
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Cherrydale - Teen Science Fiction
Y/SF JOHNS
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Y/SF JOHNS
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"After a strange and violent blizzard leaves young shaman-in-training Pitu stranded on the sea ice--without his dog team or any weapons to defend himself--he soon realizes that he is no longer in the word that he once knew. The storm has carried him into the world of the spirits, a world populated by terrifying creatures. As he tries to find his way back home, Pitu is plagued by black wolves with red eyes, ravenous and constantly stalking him, water-dwelling...
6) Alone
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When her mom inherits an old, crumbling mansion, Seda's almost excited to spend the summer there. The grounds are beautiful and it's fun to explore the sprawling house with its creepy rooms and secret passages. Except now her mom wants to renovate, rather than sell the estate-which means they're not going back to the city...or Seda's friends and school. As the days grow shorter, Seda is filled with dread. They're about to be cut off from the outside...
7) Revolver
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF SEDGW
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YF SEDGW
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Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.
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Misewa saga volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Kids Fiction
JF ROBER
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JF ROBER
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"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
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Y/SF CROCK
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Y/SF CROCK
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Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home.
10) Ice
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Central - Teen Science Fiction
Y/SF DURST
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Y/SF DURST
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A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.
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Life as we knew it volume 1
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YF PFEFF
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YF PFEFF
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Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
12) Survive
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YF MOREL
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YF MOREL
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"A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive"--Provided by publisher.
13) I am still alive
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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YF MARSH
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Cheryl Strayed's "Wild" meets "The Revenant" in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness.--Amazon.
"Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead...
14) Brian's winter
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Brian's saga volume 3
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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.
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF BROWN
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YF BROWN
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A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
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Central - Kids Nonfiction
J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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Cherrydale - Kids Nonfiction
J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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J 910.45 WALLA
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Recounts George W. De Long's expedition to reach the North Pole.
17) Peak
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Peak volume 1
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Shirlington - Teen Fiction
YF SMITH
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YF SMITH
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Westover - Teen Fiction
YF SMITH
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YF SMITH
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Shirlington - Teen Fiction
YF SMITH
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YF SMITH
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Westover - Teen Fiction
YF SMITH
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YF SMITH
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
18) The wild
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Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF GOLDE
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YF GOLDE
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Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
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YF MCCAU
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YF MCCAU
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Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.