Recounts the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 through the eyes of a young child who survived the horrible event that destroyed hundreds of homes and took the lives of 8,000 people.

After being stranded on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa must learn how to find food and shelter, create a fire, and get along with each other in order to survive.

Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.

Toby and his friend Lucas made a list of things to do the summer before they entered middle school, but now Lucas is gone, and Toby sets out to fulfill the promise he made to his friend, to finish the list by hiking the Appalachian Trail from Velvet Rocks to Mt. Katahdin, an undertaking that he is poorly prepared for--and which will become not only a struggle for survival, but a rescue mission for the starving and abused dog who he finds along the...

When Aaron's BMX is badly damaged during a stunt, a local bike shop owner offers to fix the bike for free if Aaron will represent the shop at a local race; but when the race starts Aaron and his rival Castel find themselves transported to another dimension, in a race that nobody is supposed to survive--and they must cooperate because if they die this terrifying dimension will take over the earth.

Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive...