SJPL Picks: Adventure & Survival Stories (~Grades 3-7)Like this list

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• Flying Through Water

  Wolo, Mamle,

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  Grades 5-7. "Sena treasures his life in rural Ghana—playing soccer, working on the family farm, striving to do his best at school—but he is increasingly aware of his family's precarious security in the face of poverty. When an alluring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

  Bell, Alex, 1986-

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  Grades 4-6. "Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. Most participants seek out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Stay Invisible

  Rudd, Maggie,

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  Grades 4-6. "Being alone is something Raymond is used to. Twelve-year-old Raymond Hurley has never had a place to call home. His free-wheeling parents move their family from town to town, and he’s living in a trailer in a brand-new state…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Whale

  Gold, Hannah,

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  Grades 4-6. "Eleven-year-old Rio Turner has lived all his life in London with his American mother. But when his mother’s depression worsens and she has to be hospitalized, Rio is sent to live with his near stranger of a grandmother in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Flamingo

  Guojing, 1983-

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  Grades 3+. Graphic novel. "A girl goes to visit her grandmother, who lives in a house near the beach. She finds a pink feather at Lao Lao's house that sparks her curiosity. The book gently transitions between the real and the imaginary, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frances and the Monster

  Tuma, Refe,

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  Grades 2-6. " In 1939 Switzerland, 11-year-old Frances Stenzel, who longs to join her famed scientist parents at a Brussels science symposium, is dismayed to be left behind as she always has been following the accident that took her ear…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spineless

  San Miguel, Samantha,

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  Grades 4-7. "The teeming swamps of southwestern Florida play a large role in this rollicking tale of three young Gilded Age naturalists who discover and then struggle to protect a mother octopus—a new species—and her frisky brood. In hopes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Ride

  Calabrese, Keith,

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  Grades 2-6/AR 4.4. "Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bea Wolf

  Weinersmith, Zach, 1982-

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  Grades 4-7. Graphic novel. "When their evil neighbor, aka the guardian of gloom, lays siege to Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary, turning them into pimply teenagers and sullen adults, the survivors of the onslaught call out for Bea Wolf --…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boy Who Met a Whale

  Farook, Nizrana,

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  Grades 3-6. "After his father’s death at sea, former fisher boy Razi wants nothing more to do with the ocean. He prefers peaceful mornings on land, observing sea turtles on a deserted Sri Lankan beach. When a seemingly empty vessel drifts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Northwind

  Paulsen, Gary,

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  Grades 5-8/AR 6.2. "When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline." -- Novelist.

• Across the Desert

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  Grades 3-7/AR 4.2. "When her hero, a girl known as the Desert Aviator, crashes during her livestream, 12-year-old Jolene, armed with a hand-drawn map and a stolen cell phone, races against time across the treacherous Arizona desert to save…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beatryce Prophecy

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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  Grades 3-6/AR 4.4. "Father Edik’s usual trepidation over approaching Answelica the goat’s enclosure skyrockets upon seeing a sleeping girl there, clutching the foul-tempered creature’s ear. This turns out to be Beatryce, a girl with no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe

  Springstubb, Tricia,

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  Grades 4-7/AR 4.8. "Eleven-year-old Loah Londonderry, a rather shy, quiet homebody, looks forward to her adventurous mother’s return from the Arctic tundra, but one phone call soon derails that plan. Excited by the reported spotting of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Fox Road

  Greenslade, Frances, 1961-

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  Grades 3-6/AR 5.0. "A hazardous choice on a family trip generates cascading events that leave a teen struggling to survive in the Oregon wilderness.Unlike her father, 13-year-old Francie and her mother enjoy hiking. During the family’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Canyon's Edge

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  Grades 3-7/AR 4.8. "Life can change in an instant, a fact that Nora knows all too well. It’s a year since the tragedy that stole her mother, and, like clockwork, another accident strikes, this time while hiking in a remote Sonoran Desert…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen

  Nesbet, Anne,

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  Grades 4-6/AR 6.2. "When a publicity stunt goes terribly wrong, a 12-year-old silent-film star finds herself navigating murderous plots and a runaway air balloon to rescue a kidnapped heiress from a band of dastardly criminals." --…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gold Rush Girl

  Avi, 1937-

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  Grades 4-6/AR 5.1. "Finding freedom and friendship in 1848 San Francisco while her father searches for gold, Tory embarks on a mud-caked search for her kidnapped brother throughout San Francisco Bay’s treacherous Rotten Row area and its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dog Driven

  Johnson, Terry Lynn,

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  Grades 4-8/AR 4.4. "Fourteen-year-old McKenna is about to embark on a dangerous mission to deliver a letter from her younger sister, Emma, to the Foundation for Fighting Blindness. Why dangerous? Because McKenna has entered a dog sled race…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Talent for Trouble

  Farrant, Natasha,

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  Grades 4-6/AR 4.5. "A boarding school girl desperate to connect with her unpredictable father persuades two friends to cut class for an off-the-grid adventure on a remote island, where they navigate formidable obstacles, including a gang…Read moreRead more of this annotation