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"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the...
3) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
South Shores volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Claire Britten's forensic psychology training never prepared her for a plane crash. Or how to help frightened fellow survivors cope, huddled in two small rafts awaiting rescue. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your daughter, and the man you love-- whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After surviving an airplane crash in the Arctic, Molly, Yoshi and the rest of her friends meet a group of musicians who also crashed in the same area and have been camped out in the forest hoping for a rescue. They discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift.
9) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
10) Liferaft
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When her fiancé's private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Allison Carpenter survives-- but the fight for her life is just beginning. Allison knows secrets that powerful men will kill to keep buried. If they know she's alive, they will come for her. In Owl Creek, Maine, Maggie Carpenter learns that her only child is presumed dead, but with no body Maggie isn't giving up hope. She doesn't know anything about her daughter's life now-- not even...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash and discovers she cannot remember anything, she runs off with a stranger to avoid dealing with a father she does not recognize and the press coverage of the crash.
Author
Language
English
Description
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his young daughter, Shannon, are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their hopes rest with a rescue team on the surface, led by professional diver Chris Kent-- Will's soon-to-be ex-wife. There's not much time-- and there's even...
14) 65
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive" --Container.
15) The explorer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
16) Nowhere on Earth
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are onboard a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come -- Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because...
17) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 3
Publisher
Ji lin wen shi chu ban she
Pub. Date
2013
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ye ren wen hua chu ban
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文(繁體)
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
20) Mayday
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011, p1998
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Navy missile strikes a Tokyo-bound airliner and while the four surviving passengers struggle to bring the huge jet to a landing, airline representatives, Navy officers, and insurance company personnel agree that the plane's disappearance would be best for all.
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