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Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Hatchet" concludes with Brian Robeson's rescue from the wilderness. "But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if Brian had been left to confront his deadliest enemy -- winter?" -- Publisher's text.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her-only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer...
8) Arctic
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Overgard is a resourceful yet increasingly desperate man stranded in a remote, snow-covered wilderness. After a plane crash in an icy wasteland, Overgard must live by his wits as he waits for help to arrive. But when a long-awaited rescue effort fails, he faces a life-or-death decision: remain in the relative safety of his camp and hope to be found or embark on an arduous trek that may be the only hope for both him and a critically injured stranger....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 1942: a plane carrying eight Americans crashes into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With only four oranges and no fresh water between them, the crew had to band together and rely on each other for survival. What they thought would be only a few hours or days...