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Here are our favorite survival stories for high schoolers. 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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Ricochet
by Kellyn Carni
"History got it wrong. I survived." Anastasia Romanov and her younger brother Alexei escape their family's execution when a bullet strikes Anastasia's garnet necklace, transporting them to a parallel universe. This alternate Russia is a second chance. Anastasia wants to save her family, Alexei wants the throne, and they plan to travel the infinite multiverse to find a world in which both are possible.
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We Won't All Survive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Two years after being hailed a hero for saving others during a shooting, Mercy Gray joins a survivalist reality show for a cash prize, but when contestants start turning up dead, she must uncover the truth and figure out who to trust before she is next.
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Best Of All Worlds
by Kenneth Oppel
Xavier Oaks reluctantly leaves his mom and brother to join his dad and his dad's new pregnant wife at the cabin, only to awaken one morning and discover it's like the house has been moved and they're trapped inside a dome.
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The Last Bookstore on Earth
by Lily Braun-Arnold
Seventeen-year-old Liz Flanner, holed up in an abandoned bookstore in suburban New Jersey since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization, finds herself at odds with Maeve, a potentially dangerous out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore as another Storm approaches.
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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
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Under the Surface
by Diana Urban
Ruby and her friends are on their way to an exclusive party in the Paris catacombs when they become lost in the maze of bones beneath the city. As they struggle to find their way out, they uncover dark secrets about the catacombs and each other as something sinister stalks them, determined to make sure they don’t survive the night.
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The Kill Factor
by Ben Oliver
When a new game show offers young criminals a shot at freedom and a cash prize, Emerson enters as a contestant, hoping to save her family from poverty. But what she doesn’t know is that losing means death—and winning might be her only way out.
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What the Woods Took
by Courtney Gould
When a group of troubled teens in a wilderness therapy program become stranded in a forest infested by monsters, they quickly realize they’ll have to trust each other if they want to survive. But what lies in the woods may not be as dangerous as what the campers are hiding from each other—and if the monsters have their way, no one will leave the woods alive.
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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 the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger.
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Jumper
by Melanie Crowder
Accepted into the Forest Services class of smokejumpers, 19-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.
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They're Watching You
by Chelsea Ichaso
When her best friend Polly goes 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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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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The Woods Are Always Watching
by Stephanie Perkins
When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer.
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Notes from My Captivity
by Kathy Parks
Determined to become a journalist worthy of her late father's pride, Adrienne leaps at a chance to write an article about mythological hermits in the Siberian wilderness and finds herself held captive by a family she did not believe existed.
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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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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 zone's 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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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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