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Orcutt Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction - Paperback
J PBK BURNFO 1988
1 available
J PBK BURNFO 1988
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
3 available
J FIC
3 available
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A doughty young Labrador retriever, a roguish bull terrier, and an indomitable Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness to make their way home to the family they love.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Teen - Classics
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA DEFOE 1719
1 available
FIC CLA DEFOE 1719
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Teen Fiction - Classics
YA CLAS DEFOE 1982
1 available
YA CLAS DEFOE 1982
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eBook
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A fictional autobiography of the title character?a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
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Cuyama Valley Library - Children's - Paperback
J PAP
1 available
J PAP
1 available
Cuyama Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
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Guadalupe Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
2 available
J FIC
2 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
2 available
J FIC
2 available
Description
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.
5) Ground Zero
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
6) Alabama Moon
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Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Description
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.
7) The wreckers
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Series
High seas trilogy volume 1
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Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Children's Fiction - Newbery
J FIC
2 available
J FIC
2 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's - Newbery
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Book Club
Book Club Set
1 available
Book Club Set
1 available
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.
10) Hatchet
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Series
Brian's saga volume 1
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Cuyama Valley Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC PAULSE 1987
1 available
YA FIC PAULSE 1987
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
Los Alamos Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
J FIC SALAZA 2020
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Book Club
J BOOK CLUB SET
1 available
J BOOK CLUB SET
1 available
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
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In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction - Paperback
J FIC PBK
1 available
J FIC PBK
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Description
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.
14) Abel's island
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Orcutt Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
3 available
J FIC
3 available
Description
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
15) cay
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
Author
Series
On Shelf
Cuyama Valley Library - Children's - Classics
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's - Classics
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
On Shelf
Guadalupe Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family--a minister, his wife, and four sons--who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
17) Alone
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Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
18) Nation
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.