Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
When his mother dies, a fourteenth-century peasant boy must flee for his life after being accused of a terrible crime. His only possessions are his newly discovered name and the secret contained within his mother's lead cross.
Juvenile Fiction AVI

Avi
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Returning from school in England to re-join her family, 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle departs on a seedy ship with a ruthless captain & a mutinous crew. Refusing to heed warnings about the Captain's brutality, Charlotte seeks his guidance only to become his victim, a pariah to the entire crew, and convicted for the murder of the first mate.
Juvenile Fiction AVI

Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Juvenile Fiction COLVER

Dalkey, Kara
Little Sister
Set in ancient Japan, thirteen-year-old Mitsuko, along with a wise, humorous and shiftshaping Tengu, set out on a journey to the realm of the Dead to recover the wandering soul of Misuko's beautiful elder sister.
Young Adult paperback DALKEY

Farmer, Nancy
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Three detectives with special powers are searching for General Matsika's three children who have been kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine in the year 2194 in Zimbabwe, Africa.
Juvenile Fiction FARMER

Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster
While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Juvenile Fiction FARMER

Hobbs, Will
Wild Man Island
"The land was slipping away, the wind was howling, and I was in a world of trouble." Fourteen-year-old Andy, stranded in the wilderness of Alaska, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants.
Juvenile Fiction HOBBS

Holman, Felice
Slake's Limbo
Thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees them into New York City's subway tunnels, where he believes no one misses him and no cares.
Juvenile Fiction HOLMAN

Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker
This series begins when Alex's uncle, Ian, is mysteriously killed. 14 year-old Alex discovers that Ian was not the bank vice-president he purported to be, but rather a spy for the British government. Now the government wants Alex to take over his uncle's mission.
Juvenile Fiction HOROWITZ

Ibbotson, Eva
Journey To The Sea
Maya, an orphan, departs from London for the Amazon Rainforest, to stay with relatives who are not quite as nice as she had expected.

Lawrence, Iain
The Smugglers
16-year-old John Spencer and his father are buying a new trading vessel, the Dragon, and hiring a crew who leads them into terrible danger.
Juvenile Fiction LAWRENCE

Mikaelson, Ben
Touching Bear Spirit
Cole Matthews is a violent teen offender convicted of viciously beating a classmate, Peter, causing neurological and psychological problems. Cole elects to participate in Circle Justice, an alternative sentencing program based on traditional Native American practices that results in his being banished to a remote Alaskan Island where he is left to survive for a year.
Juvenile Fiction MIKAELSON

Paulsen, Gary.
Hatchet
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days trying to survive in the wilderness.

Philbrick, W.R.
Last Book In The Universe
Spaz lives in a future world where no one reads anymore and where if you don't obey the rules you get "canceled." When his foster sister becomes ill, he crosses into forbidden territory in a dangerous quest to her.

Torrey, Michele
To The Edge Of the World
Fourteen-year-old orphan, Mateo, becomes a cabin boy on Magellan's ship, which is being sailed around the world in search of the Spice Islands.
True Adventures

Armstrong, Jennifer
Shipwreck At The Bottom Of The World: The Extraordinary True Story Of Shackleton And The Endurance
As Shackleton and 27 sailors tried to cross the frozen Antarctic continent from one side to the other, they were trapped in an ice pack and lost their ship.
Juvenile Non-Fiction G850 1914 S53 A76 1998

Goodman, Joan E.
Long And Uncertain Journey: The 27,000 Mile Voyage of Vasco Da Gama
Folllow Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on his epic journey around Africa to India.
Juvenile Non-Fiction G286 G2 G63 2001

Rumford, James
Traveling Man: The Journey Of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
Facing rebels and shipwrecks, illness and freezing weather, Ibn Battuta's 75,000 mile journey took 29 years before he could return home.
Juvenile Non-Fiction CV Ibn Battuta 2001

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