On the Edge - Adventure Stories for Teens
Annotation:As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
Annotation:In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest and changes the course of history.
Annotation:Thrilled when his cameraman father invites him along on an assignment, he does not suspect that they will become part of the great historical events sweeping China.
Annotation:After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the marines to become code talkers, sending messages during WWII in their native tongue.
Annotation:In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual survival competition pitting young people from each of the 12 districts against one another, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she is entered.
Annotation:While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Annotation:When 17 year old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Annotation:Shipwrecked after a storm, John tries to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the town where they are stranded.
Annotation:Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle, Symone discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symone's Hole, an opening that leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Annotation:A fictionalized account of an 18 year-old boy who stowed away for the 1914 Shackelton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship was crushed by ice, endured many hardships.
Annotation:Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a 13-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Annotation: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 he is sent to a remote island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Annotation:Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Annotation:Matt, a cabin boy on an airship, and Kate, a wealthy girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.
Annotation:After a plane crash, Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parent’s divorce.
Annotation:In England in 1995, Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Annotation: A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.
Annotation:In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Annotation:Dr. Julius Kane, an Egyptologist, accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god, Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey.
Annotation:In a future devastated by catastrophes and epidemics, 16-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, only to learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.
Annotation:After being attacked by Red Sea pirates, fourteen-year-old Libby is left alone on a hostile sea, far from home, to fight for survival.
Annotation:Fleeing from his brutal father, Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man’s life forever.
Annotation:As we come to rely on technology in almost every aspect of our everyday lives, there is a large and ever-growing interest in how we would survive without the conveniences of the modern age. This book shows you how to adapt and thrive in the wilderness.
Annotation:Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray.
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