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J / COLLIER
Jump ship to freedom.
James Collier.
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave escapes from his dishonest master and
works to buy his mother's freedom.
J / COONEY
Flight #116 is down!
Caroline B Cooney.
Heidi helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and
the experience changes her life forever.
J / GEORGE
Julie of the wolves.
Jean Craighead George.
While running away from home, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost
on the North Slope of Alaska and is cared for by a wolf pack.
J / GEORGE
My side of the mountain.
Jean Craighead George.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in
the Catskill Mountains.
J / NAPOLI
Stones in water.
Donna Jo Napoli.
Along with other Italian boys, Roberto is forced to work for the German war
effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter and desperately tries to
make his way back home to Venice.
J / ODELL
Island of the blue dolphins.
Scott OíDell.
Karana, an Indian girl who lives alone for years on the Island of the Blue
Dolphins, finds the courage to survive until she can be rescued.
J / PAULSEN
Hatchet.
Gary Paulsen.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the
wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet
given by his mother.
J / SACHAR.
Holes.
Louis Sachar.
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a terrible correctional camp in the Texas desert
where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of
himself.
J / VOIGT
Homecoming.
Cynthia Voigt.
Abandoned by their mother in a mall parking lot, four children begin a long
journey of survival as they search at relativesí houses for a home.
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