Ben Mikaelsen
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and is sent to a remote Alaskan island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. This gripping, graphic survival story from an award-winning writer paints an unsparing picture of one violent teen and offers a poignant testimony to the power of pain that can...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
3) Red midnight
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
5) Tree Girl
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
