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1) Walden
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Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. In today's fast-paced consumer-driven society, the austere lifestyle...
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Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
6) Save Rafe!
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Middle schooler Rafe Khatchadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed.
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Glacier mysteries volume 2
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A wildlife biologist's shocking death leads to chilling discoveries about a home for troubled teens in Christine Carbo's haunting and compelling new crime novel set in the wilds of Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park police officer Monty Harris knows that each summer at least one person--be it a reckless, arrogant climber or a distracted hiker--will meet tragedy in the park. But Paul "Wolfie" Sedgewick's fatal fall from the sheer cliffs...
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Brian's saga volume 4
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
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Bloomsbury Wildlife
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This practical book is filled with 52 varied and inspiring activities illustrated with beautiful color photographs that will get you out and about whatever the weather. Organized by month, Urban wild's simple, seasonal, step-by-step activities open the door to nature in urban and suburban landscapes to help you increase your potential for health and well-being and take your first steps on a journey of discovery towards a lifelong connection with...
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Random House Children's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Chris and Frank's sailing vessel sinks and they are stranded alone in the wilds of Alaska. They don't like each other at all, but to survive they must build a relationship"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mike Bowditch novels volume 3
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Summoned to a rustic cabin during a blizzard, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch embarks on a dangerous investigation involving a notorious drug dealer, a beautiful woman with a dark past, and her troubled young son.
13) Ice dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
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2016.
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"It is the last weekend of the season for Amy Raye Latour to get away. Driven to spend days alone in the wilderness, Amy Raye, mother of two, is compelled by the quiet and the rush of nature. But this time, her venture into a remote area presents a different set of dangers than Amy Raye has planned for and she finds herself on the verge of the precarious edge that she's flirted with her entire life. When Amy Raye doesn't return to camp, ranger Pru...
15) The crossing
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 2
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English
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"Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared, learns of a young man who has gone missing in a national forest. Law enforcement has abandoned the search, but a crew of people led by the young man's father are still looking. Sensing a father's desperation, Frankie agrees to help--but soon sees that a missing person isn't all that's wrong here. And when more people start to vanish, Frankie realizes she's up against something very dark--and...
19) Impasse
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In Royce Scott Buckingham's Impasse, a man is left to die in Alaska while on an "adventure vacation" and must somehow survive to get his revenge on those who betrayed him. Forty and facing a mid-life crisis, Stu Stark has lost his mojo. He simply gave up after being fired from his prestigious job as a prosecuting attorney for losing the biggest case of his career. So when Stu's best friend gifts him a one-week trip into the Alaskan wilderness to...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A high stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident, The River at Night is a nonstop and unforgettable thriller by a stunning new voice in fiction. Winifred Allen needs a vacation. Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and lonely after the end of a fifteen-year marriage, Wini...
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