A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.

When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.

"Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner"--

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...

13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new. Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.

After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.

Contains 361 tips including basic first aid and surviving in wilderness, disaster, and urban situations. This revised and expanded edition ventures farther into deeper, more frightening, and stranger places in search of the ultimate survival information, including having a limb trapped underneath a rock, getting attacked by an alligator, and making it through a meteor strike.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly...