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Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly...

In pursuit of a strange butterfly for her science assignment, Kelly gets lost in the woods, and with only a mason jar, a butterfly net, and a small lunch, she must figure out which direction will lead her back to the cabin and her friends--and somehow elude the black bear who has taken a disturbing interest in her.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

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 in a forest wilderness until help arrives.

"At-ten-tion! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A. J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and win cool badges. But scout leader Miss Blake would rather prepare them for bear attacks and falling boulders. When they head outdoors, will they be prepared for a real emergency?" -- Back cover.

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.

For Arlo Finch and the Rangers of Pine Mountain Company, summer camp is more than canoeing and hiking. It's also a chance to search for ancient forest spirits and discover mysterious messages encoded in tree bark. But when Arlo and his best friends Indra and Wu stumble upon clues about the long-lost Yellow Patrol, Arlo uncovers a stunning history that leads right back to his very own family.

Como la tercera versión de prueba llega a su fin, Thomas y algunos de sus compañeros logran escapar de Wicked, después de haber sido restaurados sus recuerdos, sólo para hacer frente a los nuevos peligros como Wicked dice estar tratando de proteger a la raza humana por el virus mortal brote. As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from Wicked, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers...

Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.