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1) Downriver
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Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River for a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
3) Hatchet
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness.
4) The river
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Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
1 available
J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Audio Visual Collection
MP3 YA F PAULSEN G
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MP3 YA F PAULSEN G
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Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
1 available
J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, sixteen-year-old Brian finds that he can't seem to fit into "civilization" but must return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
7) Brian's hunt
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Two years after he survived a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild where he feels he belongs. In a temporary camp on the way to visit his friends, Brian Robeson finds a dog, wounded and whimpering. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his friends. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he...
8) Woods runner
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
9) Northwind
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F PAULSEN G
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J F PAULSEN G
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When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
10) Never say die
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Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
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When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Please ask for this item at the Check-Out Desk
BOOKS ON THE MOVE F LONDON J
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BOOKS ON THE MOVE F LONDON J
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Audio Visual Collection
MP3 F LONDON J
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MP3 F LONDON J
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy ... Came to buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
13) Holes
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F SACHAR L
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J F SACHAR L
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F SACHAR L
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J F SACHAR L
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F SACHAR L
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J F SACHAR L
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD F SACHAR L
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J CD F SACHAR L
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
14) The wanderer
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F CREECH S
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J F CREECH S
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F CREECH S
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J F CREECH S
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Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
15) The trail
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Sheridan Co. - Tongue River Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F HASHIMOT M
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J F HASHIMOT M
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Toby and his friend Lucas made a list of things to do the summer before they entered middle school, but now Lucas is gone, and Toby sets out to fulfill the promise he made to his friend, to finish the list by hiking the Appalachian Trail from Velvet Rocks to Mt. Katahdin, an undertaking that he is poorly prepared for--and which will become not only a struggle for survival, but a rescue mission for the starving and abused dog who he finds along the...
16) Walk two moons
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F CREECH S
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J F CREECH S
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Sheridan Co. - Clearmont Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F CREECH S
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J F CREECH S
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F CREECH S
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J F CREECH S
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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A beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend.
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks.
Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F RAWLS W
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J F RAWLS W
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Sheridan Co. - Clearmont Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F RAWLS W
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J F RAWLS W
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F RAWLS W
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J F RAWLS W
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The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930's.
19) Shipwreck
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Sheridan Co. - Fulmer Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F KORMAN G
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J F KORMAN G
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Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent...
20) Ice dogs
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Sheridan Co. - Story Branch - Juvenile Fiction
J F JOHNSON T
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J F JOHNSON T
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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.