Pines and Plains Libraries

"Gives essential survival tips for using tools and natural resources in the wild, including how to use wood, grass, animal sources, and other things found in nature"--Provided by publisher.

This is a collection of stories to make you more aware of your surroundings and to help you develop and trust your instincts.

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult book "In the Heart of the Sea."

Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.

"A teenager wanders alone through the jungle in Peru. A woman loses her way in an Australian rain forest. A pilot crash-lands in the Amazon. These remarkable true tales could have ended in tragedy-but they didn't! What happened to three people who found themselves wandering for weeks though dense jungles? And how did they survive to tell their tales? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read hi-lo graphic novel that will keep them on the edge...

Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.

A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped.

Presents techniques and equipment used by elite soldiers for surviving in the wilderness.