When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.

When Scout and his master Matt arrive in Puerto Rico in the wake of a hurricane, the dog they are fostering, Rosita, runs off into the forest, prompting Scout and Matt to go in after her.

When two Florida teenagers become stranded on a tiny island in the Everglades, they attempt to walk ten miles through swampland to reach civilization.

Liam and Tej must rely on all of their survival resources to escape a ferocious bear tracking them after they lose control of their truck in a rainstorm on a remote logging road.

"At-ten-tion! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A. J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and win cool badges. But scout leader Miss Blake would rather prepare them for bear attacks and falling boulders. When they head outdoors, will they be prepared for a real emergency?" -- Back cover.

In pursuit of a strange butterfly for her science assignment, Kelly gets lost in the woods, and with only a mason jar, a butterfly net, and a small lunch, she must figure out which direction will lead her back to the cabin and her friends--and somehow elude the black bear who has taken a disturbing interest in her.

Twelve students play a deadly game of survival on an island against an evil presence.

"Thomas y sus amigos descansan después de escapar del Laberinto. Por fin sienten que están a salvo. Pero unos gritos desquiciados los despiertan y los enfrentan a una realidad aún más aterradora que la anterior."--Back cover. After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival...

Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive...

When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.