Survival Stories

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Aftershock

From the Series Day of Disaster

Ray, Sasha, Liam, and Harper have been friends since they were young. They've gotten through the worst together, but it seems like a recent argument might be just enough to break the ties of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
Cover: Ashes
Starred Review & Award Count 2 1

Ashes

From the Series The Ashes Trilogy

An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011

Backfire

From the Series Day of Disaster

After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 640
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

Black Blizzard

From the Series Day of Disaster

Just when Tyler thought his day couldn't get any worse, his speech team's bus gets stuck in the middle of the desert. After an embarrassing screw-up that caused the team to lose, all Tyler… Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
2 titles

Day of Disaster — Hardcover Set

From the Series Day of Disaster

Do you have what it takes to survive? In these fast-paced and highly engaging stories about natural disasters, teens face life-or-death situations in which they need luck and quick thinking… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2017
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $53.30
  • Your Price: $39.97
  • 2 titles
5 titles

Day of Disaster — Paperback Set

From the Series Day of Disaster

In these fast-paced and highly engaging stories about natural disasters, teens face life-or-death situations in which they need luck and quick thinking to survive. While outrunning storms and Read More →

  • Copyright: 2017
  • Paperback
  • List Price: $39.95
  • Your Price: $37.95
  • 5 titles

Deep Freeze

From the Series Day of Disaster

When the heat goes out in Zach's family cabin during a massive blizzard, isolation sets in. Suddenly, what had been quiet woods seem deadly. Zach and his dog are forced out of their cabin… Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

Escape from the Wildfire

Jack loves mountain biking, and when his dad forbids him to ride in the forest surrounding Lytton because of the risk of wildfire, the reality of the region's heat dome sets in. Days later,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2023

Fight the Wind

From the Series After the Dust Settled

Fix and Cleo are an uncomfortable pair, forced together when gangs drive them out of the ruins of Minneapolis. Fix has a gift for machines. If he can restore an old turbine on the wind farm,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012
35 titles

First Avenue Classics ™ Grades 6–8 Collection (Multi-User) — eBook Set

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

From Alice and the Wizard of Oz to Hamlet and Don Quixote, your favorite characters from literature are now accessible from any digital device. First Avenue Classics transform unabridged… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2025
  • Multi-user eBook
  • List Price: $699.65
  • Your Price: $524.74
  • 35 titles

Heat Wave

From the Series Road Trip

When their road trips takes a turn for disaster, these teens must rely on their instincts to survive. Marissa's favorite singer is coming to a nearby music festival, and Marissa can't wait… Read More →

  • Lexile: 630
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

Lost in the River of Grass

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011

Monsters

From the Series The Ashes Trilogy

The Hunger Games mixes with The Walking Dead in this post-apocalyptic YA series that comes to a hair-raising conclusion in Monsters. The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 770
  • ATOS: 5.2
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2013

Off Course

From the Series Road Trip

When their road trips takes a turn for disaster, these teens must rely on their instincts to survive. Nora and her twin sister Livi are road tripping down the Pacific coast—Livi to interview Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

Off Road

From the Series To the Limit

Wyatt has spent most of the summer mountain biking with his best friend Tanka. But when the friends decide to test out a new trail, they face potentially deadly challenges. After a crash… Read More →

  • Lexile: 880
  • ATOS: 5.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

On Edge

From the Series To the Limit

Trevor and Micah set out on what they think will be a fun day of rock climbing and hiking. But after Micah takes a bad fall, injuring himself in the process, the trip is off to a bad start.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 860
  • ATOS: 5.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

On the Free

Santi agreed to join the Bear Canyon Wilderness Therapy Program for one reason: less time in juvie. Amelia signed up to prove a point. Victor—well, no one can figure out why Victor's on the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

Pig City

From the Series After the Dust Settled

To survive in this rough new world, Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell try to avoid cities and stay on the move. But when a winter storm sets in, they decide to risk finding shelter rather… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

Plague Riders

From the Series After the Dust Settled

Shep Greenfield is a plague rider. When his parents disappeared after an attack on their home, he agreed to deliver medicine for the sinister Doctor St. John. The doctor runs the camp of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012
4 titles

Quarantine — Paperback Set

From the Series Quarantine

It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High before a massive explosion devastated the school and a fatal Ebola-like virus was unleashed. Now a year later, the school has descended… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2016
  • Paperback
  • List Price: $43.66
  • Your Price: $43.66
  • 4 titles

Riptide

From the Series To the Limit

Big waves and competition with other surfers send friends Maya and Paige out to surf the notoriously dangerous and secluded Rippers Cove. Soon the big waves turn into a big storm, and a bad… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

River Run

From the Series After the Dust Settled

All Freya can remember is her sister, the basement, and the Man Upstairs. She has no memory of the world outside or of being warm or of not feeling hungry. And now her sister is gone. An… Read More →

  • Lexile: 520
  • ATOS: 3.6
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012
Cover: Shadows
Starred Review & Award Count 2

Shadows

From the Series The Ashes Trilogy

The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive. Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

Shot Down

From the Series After the Dust Settled

When a bullet knocks Malik and the Captain's hot-air balloon out of the sky, Malik goes into wilderness survival mode. Actually, he's been in survival mode ever since the world fell apart.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 710
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012