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You'll enjoy these titles because: they are books about kids surviving on their own. @MenloLibrary #JuviPicks

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  • Oliver loves mountain biking on rocky, wooded trails. And he has an unlikely partner--his much older half sister Morgan. One summer evening while out with their dog Digby, Oliver tries to impress Morgan by leading her down a new trail he…
    BookBuffalo, NY : West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing, [2024] — J-GRA
  • After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and…
    BookMendota Heights, Minnesota : Jolly Fish Press, 2024. — J-ABE
  • Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — J WOLO
  • Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — J Nielsen J.
  • Wanting to escape his family life, sixth grader Hayes flies off with his misfit friend Gerty to protect a clonal colony of aspen from a wildfire, but the two quickly realize the importance of everything they tried to leave behind.
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023] — J-VRA
  • Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi flees North Korea with his family during the height of the devastating Korean War, beginning an epic struggle for survival that pushes them to the brink.
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2023] — J-LEE
  • welve-year-old Sam lives alone with his mom and their dog in the idyllic seaside town of Santa Bonita. His father died when Sam was young, but his best friend Marco has been helping recreate his dad's old photos as part of a memorial…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Inc., 2023. — J-MAS
  • A research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when Ring and Asia Wilde's scientist mother goes missing, and in order to rescue her, they must use their skills to survive the jungle.
    BookAnn Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2023] — J-WIL
  • When a wildfire in the Idaho wilderness threatens their fishing trip, two feuding friend groups must put aside their differences and work together to get to safety.
    BookNew York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] — J Reedy T.
  • Flor Fights Back

    a Stonewall Riots Survival Story

    Ellison, Joy Michael,
    In 1969, when thirteen-year-old transgender runaway Flor and her new trans friend Tami try to make their way into the queer and trans community of New York City, they find themselves at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police…
    BookNorth Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2023] — J-GIRLS
  • Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilderness with only a survival handbook and each other after their instructor goes missing.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — J RICHARDS
  • Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea…
    BookAtlanta : Peachtree, [2022] — j FAROOK
  • When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — J GRA
  • When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — J-PHILBRICK, R
  • When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely…
    BookNew York : Aladdin, 2021. — j FREEMAN
  • Rising eighth-graders Jocelyn and Alex, former best friends forced together on a family vacation, must cooperate to survive when they get lost in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Told in two voices
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Young Readers, [2020] — J BEHRENS
  • A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — J Bowling D.
  • During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
    BookNew York : Starscape, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2020. — J-ESP
  • Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks…
    BookNaperville, IL : Sourcebooks Young Readers, [2019] — J-BEH
  • Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and…
    BookNew York : Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2019. — J-PHILBRICK, R