Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Action & Adventure - Survival Stories

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not--you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.

Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.

But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.

Fourteen kids. One...

The Ocean of Shah is dying. Could a rebellious girl and a tormented youth be its champions?

When Jade rescues her younger brother from the sea, little does she suspect that a voice haunting her dreams will drag her down into a whirlpool of fear.

Kreh-ursh, wracked by guilt over a friend's death, struggles to survive a life-testing rite. Yet soon he will face an even greater challenge, one that could divide him forever from his tribe.

Combining forces is key to saving both their worlds. But to protect their peoples, they must brave the terror of the whirlpool passage....

Blending elements of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, this gripping story from Kathryn Holmes was deemed "a page turner" by author Richard Peck and "an intense story of survival" by ALA Booklist in its starred review.

Sophomore Hallie Calhoun has just endured the most excruciating six months of her life. Once the rumors about her and the preacher's son, Luke, made their way around school, her friends abandoned her, and as a result, Hallie has completely withdrawn.

Now on a hiking trip in the Smoky Mountains with the same...

Jessamy's life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family she can be whoever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory...