A small plane carrying four passengers takes off from revolution-torn Baskul, but instead of heading for Peshawur and safety, its mysterious pilot flies ever deeper into the Himalayas, finally crash landing in the unexplored Tibetan wilderness.

Tells the stories of people who survived shipwrecks, airplane crashes and other disasters.

Tells the story of the Essex, a whaleship that set sail from Nantucket in 1819 on a routine voyage, and was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the South Pacific, setting the twenty-man crew adrift in three tiny boats.

A twelve-year-old describes his nine-day struggles to survive after being separated from his companions in the mountains of Maine in 1939. When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from...

Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...