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Savage Drift

Emmy Laybourne · 330 pages

Dean, Alex, and the other survivors of the Monument 14 have escaped the disaster zone and made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Some of the kids have been reunited with their families, and everyone is making tentative plans for the future. And then, Niko learns that his lost love, Josie, has survived! The survivors of the Monument 14 have made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee ca

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Fugitives

Alexander Gordon Smith · 306 pages

I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown - the roads sealed, the police scouring every building.

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The Saints

Lex Thomas · 416 pages

The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power. The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power. The plot contains profanity, sexual situation

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SYLO

D.J. MacHale · 432 pages

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I Have a Bad Feeling about This

Jeff Strand · 242 pages

Everything unathletic sixteen-year-old Henry was dreading about survival camp turns out to be true--or even worse--when armed killers arrive and survival takes on a whole new meaning for the campers.

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The Hurricane

Hugh Howey · 224 pages

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Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins · 382 pages

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series! When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard ab

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The Loop

Ben Oliver · 368 pages

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The Kill Order

James Dashner · 384 pages

Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth, killing most of the population. Mark and Trina were there when it happened. They survived. But now a virus is spreading. A virus that fills humans with murderous rage. They’re convinced that there’s a way to save those who are left—if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devas

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The Dead and the Gone

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 320 pages

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Raptor

Paul Zindel · 170 pages

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

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Flight #116 Is Down!

Caroline B. Cooney · 204 pages

"When a 747 jumbo jet crashes in the back of her parents' sprawling Connecticut estate, the quietness of 16-year-old Heidi Landseth's insulated existence is transformed forever. With both her parents away for the weekend, she alone must make decisions that will affect the lives of hundreds of injured passengers. Her call to 911 gives Patrick Farquhar, a 17-year-old Emergency Medical Technician, th

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Ambush

Chris Bradford · 399 pages

In Africa only the strong survive. Teenage martial arts expert Connor Reeves is tasked with protecting a foreign ambassador's family on safari. Considered the perfect assignment, the holiday turns to hell when their convoy is ambushed by gunmen. Fleeing through the bush, Connor and his assigned family become the prey in a shoot-to-kill hunt across the African plains. As they fight for their surviv

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Chasers

James Phelan · 257 pages

Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. Jesse and his three friends, Anna, Dave and Mini, crawl out from the wreckage only to discover a city in chaos. The only other survivors seem to be infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators ... First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

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These Broken Stars

Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 381 pages

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more t

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Ashen Winter

Mike Mullin · 580 pages

More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.

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The Rule of Three

Eric Walters · 386 pages

"In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable"-- In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood, but the tradeoffs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable. The plot contains mild profanity and graphic violence. Book

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If We Survive

Andrew Klavan

When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.

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The Well's End

Seth Fishman · 347 pages

"16-year-old Mia Kish and her friends search for answers when a mysterious illness brings their Colorado community to its knees"--

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Under the Never Sky

Veronica Rossi · 336 pages

Since she'd been on the outside, she'd survived an Aether storm, she'd had a knife held to her throat, and she'd seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland--known as The Death Shop--are slim. If the cannibals don't get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She's been taught that th

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La Belle Sauvage

Philip Pullman · 464 pages

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of

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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 496 pages

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."? -- The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece ... should do for aliens what Twilight.

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Survival

Chris Ryan · 206 pages

This thriller challenges five children to survive after they are marooned on a desert island. They must face killer komodo dragons, sharks and modern-day pirates. The ex-SAS author includes ten top tips for survival in tropical conditions.

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UnStrung

Neal Shusterman, Michelle Knowlden · 60 pages

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