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Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill-ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped."--
4) Lost!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
In an interview with a reporter, eleven-year-old Carter recounts his tale of survival with twelve-year-old Anna in the perilous jungles of Costa Rica. Includes a list of suvival kit items.
5) Tarzan II
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Before he was King of the Jungle, Tarzan was an awkward young kid just trying to fit in. When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off without him. Along his new journey he must come face to face with the mysterious Zugor, the most powerful force in the land. Together, Tarzan and Zugor discover that being different is not a weakness and that friends and family are the greatest strength of all.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along,...
7) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not asurvival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Special Forces "Green Berets" share their skills for survival in the world's jungles, including how to move and signal in safety, how to locate food and water, how to deal with snakes and spiders, and more.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Can you survive being trapped in a rain forest? Imagine a run-in with a poison dart frog in the Amazon Rain Forest, a chimpanzee in the African Congo, or a clouded leopard in the jungles of Southeast Asia. How far would you be willing to go to save your own life? Would it work? Flip through these pages to find out! What would you do in a life-or-death situation out in the wilderness? Now's your chance to find out! Readers will be transported to different...
13) The white Mary
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
War reporter Marika Vecera learns that her long-time hero, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Lewis, has committed suicide and sets out to write his biography, only to hear rumors that he may still be alive in Papua New Guinea.
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a plane bound for Costa Rica crashes in deep jungle, the tail section breaks free and nineteen teenagers miraculously survive. Joel Aspinall, son of a local politician and student rep on the school's council, is quick to take on the mantle of leadership, to organize everyone until a rescue party arrives. But the plane was crashed on purpose, no one knows where they are and no rescuers are coming. To make things worse, Joel's decisions lead to...
15) Can you survive?
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"You choose what to do in three life-or-death experiences. You choose what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety ... or to your doom!"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Beasts roar, danger abounds and Johnny Weissmuller swoops into the last 6 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provides World War II heroics in Tarzan triumphs and Tarzan's desert mystery. Next, he welcomes Jane (Brenda Joyce) home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the leopard woman. And the Ape Man calls in elephants to deal...
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