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Here are our favorite survival stories. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library unless otherwise noted.
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They're Watching You
by Chelsea Ichaso
To find her best friend Polly who went missing, Maren Montgomery enters into a high-stakes world she never knew existed within her boarding academy, where she is forced to play increasingly dangerous games to win Polly's survival.
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Star Splitter
by Matthew J. Kirby
In 2199, 17-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up on a desolate, post-extinction planet 14 light years from Earth and must make sense of the bloody destruction around her, as well as survive long enough to learn the truth.
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I Am Still Alive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Stranded in the woods after her cabin burns down and her father is killed, a disabled girl and her dog fervently prepare for the coming winter while plotting revenge on the person who murdered her father.
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Starry Eyes
by Jenn Bennett
When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
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The Sunbearer Trials
by Aiden Thomas
Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones, Teo, the 17-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, must compete against more powerful and better trained opponents for fame, glory and his own survival.
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Monsters Born and Made
by Tanvi Berwah
To save her chronically ill little sister, 16-year-old Koral cheats her way into the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the elite, where she must choose between her life or her sister's when rogues try to force her to drop out.
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The Q
by Amy Tintera
A trusted lieutenant for one of the post-pandemic quarantine zones controlling families, 17-year-old Maisie Rojas has 48 hours to get the infected son of a U.S. presidential candidate out of the Q zone, where he was dropped, before disaster strikes.
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All That's Left in the World
by Erik J. Brown
Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future.
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The Speed of Falling Objects
by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Losing one of her eyes in an accident at the same time her father’s television survival show takes him away from home, Danny becomes stranded in the Amazon rainforest while participating in the TV show at her father’s invitation and must follow his example to survive before uncovering a devastating secret.
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Nowhere on Earth
by Nick Lake
Discovering a lost child wandering in the woods, a 16-year-old runaway learns that the boy is not from Earth and that he is being pursued by zealous government forces, a situation that is complicated by a dangerous accident. By the award-winning author of Satellite.
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Orphan Monster Spy
by Matt Killeen
After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, Sarah, a Jewish teenager, agrees to help the resistance by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to the blueprints of a bomb that could destroy Western Europe.
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Where the World Ends
by Geraldine McCaughrean
An award-winning young adult novel by the best-selling author of Peter Pan in Scarlet traces the story of eight boys who participate in an annual bird-hunting expedition on a remote island only to become stranded when nobody arrives to take them home.
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Jane Anonymous
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Locked in a room by an unknown kidnapper who slid her basic needs through a pet door, a 17-year-old girl escapes back home to her family and struggles with crippling PTSD that compels her to write a therapeutic diary chronicling her efforts to uncover the truth of what happened.
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The Last 8
by Laura Pohl
Clover Martinez, a young survivor of an alien invasion that has killed everyone she knows, learns that other teen survivors are hiding at the former Area 51, where the discovery of a hidden spaceship makes her question who she can trust.
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Girls Save the World in This One
by Ash Parsons
Looking forward to the panels, photo ops, and celebrity appearances at the ZombieCon fan convention, June and her girl-power friends discover that real zombies have taken over the event, prompting a daring plan to save the world.
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Be Not Far From Me
by Mindy McGinnis
Feeling more at home in the woods than under a roof, Ashley finds the limits of her survival abilities tested when a betrayal and an accident strand her in untracked territory.
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The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Tierney dreams of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild for one year to be cured of their "magic" but leaving could be more dangerous than staying.
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Ascent
by Roland Smith
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
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The Lovely and the Lost
by Jennifer Barnes
Adopted into the family that discovered her as a feral child, Kira joins their search-and-rescue business and privately struggles with human interactions before the appearance of her estranged father prompts her search in an unbridled wilderness for a missing child.
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