Monday, September 18, 2023

Prepped? Are You Ready for These Disasters?

This week, we're sharing teen survival stories.  Whether they're surviving a natural disaster, evil creature, alien invasion, or apocalypse, these teen stories are definitely worth checking out.

In Darkness by Nick Lake
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward
Wishing she could just spend time with her new girlfriend, Lea struggles with the decline in humanity as an environmental disaster strikes.

Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy
Rose and Tate are best friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage, determination, and their feelings for each other.


More Books --
All We Can Do It Wait by Richard Lawson
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed
Dustborn by Erin Bowman
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Fractured Tide by Leslie Karen Lutz
Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson
The Great Big One by J.C. Geiger
The Living by Matt de la Pena
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Storm by Donna Jo Napoli
The Wild Lands by Paul Greci

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