Extreme Adventures

• Backwater by Joan Bauer - Ivy treks into the mountains in search of a long lost aunt. (JRHI BAUER)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Alden Carter - A family canoe trip turns into a fight for survival. (JRHI CARTER)
• Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear - Fifty years after discovering dinosaurs in the Lost World, dinosaur lovers attempt to return T Rex and company back to the wilds from whence they came. A sequel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. (ADULT SF BEAR)
• Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney - A passenger jet full of people comes down in Heidi's back yard! (JRHI COONEY)
• Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer - While journeying to Zimbabwe, Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in doing so comes close to the luminous world of African spirits. (JRHI FARMER)
• Guts by Gary Paulsen - The true stories behind Gary Paulsen's excellent Hatchet and Brian books. (YA 92 PAULSEN & J 92 PAULSEN)
• Into Thin Air by John Krakauer - A personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. (ADULT 796.522 KRAKAUER)
• Jaguar by Roland Smith - Jacob and his father fight poachers and the environment while traveling to a jaguar preserve in Brazil. (YA FIC SMITH)
• Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs - Jason heads out on a 10,000-mile journey to find gold and strike it rich. (YA FIC HOBBS)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Shipwrecked boys turn primeval. (ADULT FIC GOLDING)
• Night of the Bat by Paul Zindel - Jake and his dad journey into the Brazilian rain forest in search of a giant brain-eating rat. (JRHI ZINDEL)
• A Night to Remember by Walter Lord - Titanic sinks! One of the best accounts of the gruesome disaster. (ADULT 910.45 LORD)
• Memory Boy by Will Weaver - Volcanic eruptions create an ecological disaster, forcing Miles to lead his family away from their ravaged Minneapolis home. (YA FIC WEAVER)
• Reef of Death by Paul Zindel - Is a deadly monster haunting the Great Barrier Reef? (JRHI ZINDEL)
• Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea by Dorcas Miller - 19 stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's toughest places! (YA 904 RES)
• Rough Waters by S. L. Rottman - Two brothers go to live with their uncle who owns a white water rafting outfit. (YA FIC ROTTMAN)
• Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden - Seven Australian teens return from a camping trip to find their county has been invaded, and they must take to the wilderness in order to survive. (YA FIC & JRHI MARSDEN)
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen - In order to escape jail time, Cole agrees to go live on a remote Alaskan island. (YA FIC and JRHI MIKAELSEN)
• The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence - John Spencer is in danger for his life after he survives a shipwreck. (JRHI LAWRENCE)
• Wildside Steven Gould - A hidden tunnel is actually a gateway into the peaceful, pristine past millions of years ago -- but that peace is shattered by jealousy and greed. (YA FIC GOULD)
• High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashear - An enduring passion for Mount Everest and other unforgiving places. (ADULT 796.522 BRE)