Join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to. Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they...

Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?

In 1906, fiesty eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan is shipped off to live with her Aunt Sally in San Francisco with the hopes that she will be tamed, but shortly after arriving the city is hit by a catastrophic earthquake, forcing Littlebeth to fight for her survival.

It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...

"After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free"--

Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.

When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and other other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.

In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, who comes from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure, so he stows away aboard one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which are returning to the New World in search of gold, and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay--what he finds is a struggle for survival, especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.

In 1912, thirteen-year-old Noelle and her parents are aboard the Titanic, when she is awoken to a sinking ship and must evacuate to a lifeboat with her mother, but first she has to find and help her new friend, Pauline, who is in steerage.

"The classic survival story gets a prehistoric twist in this gripping middle-grade adventure featuring a boy and his sabre tooth tiger cub, perfect for fans of Hatchet. Part survival story, part animal-human friendship story and part redemption story, Clan follows the journey of Atlatl and the saber tooth cub he rescued from a dire wolf attack. When Atlatl brings Cub back to his Clan, it begins a series of events that end with Atlatl being banished...