The 5th Wave
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 132
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, survival, war, survival skills [X], war fiction [X], science fiction
A Long Walk To Water
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 778
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: dut, salva, refugees, survival skills [X], water, sudan, blacks, survival, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, war stories, large type books, war fiction [X], biographical fiction
The 5th Wave
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, survival, survival skills [X], aliens (fictional characters), war fiction [X], science fiction
I Survived The American Revolution, 1776
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 108
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: united states, survival, war, , historical fiction, war fiction, action and adventure fiction, historical fiction, war fiction [X], action and adventure fiction, children's audiobooks, war stories, adventure and adventurers, new york (state), electronic books, electronic books, graphic novels, survival skills [X], imaginary wars and battles, war comics, historical comics, comics adaptations, graphic novels
Grenade
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 117
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: survival, marines, world war, 1939-1945, war stories, japanese, ryukyuans, okinawa-shi (japan), war fiction [X], survival skills [X], war, large type books, historical fiction
Sandstorm Blast
When his helicopter crashes in Kunar Province in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins is cut off from the forward base where the rest of his pararescue team is under fire--injured and captured by the Taliban Jenkins struggles to survive while the rest of his team sets out to find and rescue him.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: taliban, search and rescue operations, survival, afghan war, 2001-, war stories, adventure stories, rescue work, adventure and adventurers, survival skills [X], kunar (afghanistan : province), war fiction [X], action and adventure fiction
Allies
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 is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 154
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, german american soldiers, survival, war stories, german americans, soldiers, normandy (france), france, war fiction [X], historical fiction, survival skills [X], children's audiobooks
War Girls
In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.
FIC
year:
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, war, science fiction, nigeria, science fiction, cyborgs, survival skills [X], war fiction [X]
Under The Broken Sky
"When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, survival skills [X], refugees, sisters, manchuria (china), novels in verse, historical fiction, war fiction [X]
Trapped In Hitler's Web
Maria and her friend Nathan flee their Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town, hoping to earn wages and avoid starvation as foreign workers in Austria, but they are quickly separated and Maria waits out the war as a farm laborer.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: forced labor, farm life, ukrainians, survival, world war, 1939-1945, war stories, war, survival skills [X], austria, war fiction [X], historical fiction
In A Flash
Caught in Japan and separated from their father when World War II begins, Italian sisters Simona, thirteen, and Carolina, ten, embark on a trying journey hoping to reach safety.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: sisters, world war, 1939-1945, survival, italians, survival skills [X], japan, war fiction [X], historical fiction
To The Edge Of Sorrow
During World War II, a group of Jewish partisans fight together to end the Nazis supreme.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jewish soldiers, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), world war, 1939-1945, insurgency, survival, war stories, holocaust, 1939-1945, survival skills [X], ukraine, historical fiction, war fiction [X]
D-39
"A robodog, D-39, and his human friends discover challenges, danger, and the strength to persevere in this war and survival dystopian novel in verse about friendship and family"--.
FIC
year:
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dogs, robots, survival skills [X], war stories, war fiction [X], science fiction, novels in verse
The Silent Unseen
"In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kami?ska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: survival, brothers and sisters, government, resistance to, ukrainians, world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction, ukraine, poland, romance, poland, historical fiction, war fiction [X], survival skills [X], siblings, resistance to government
Wolves At The Door
August 1944, Asta, her younger sister Pieta, and their mother are caught between the invading Soviet Army and the retreating Wehrmacht in East Prussia and are forced to try and survive in the Romincka Forest with winter coming.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, sisters, forests and forestry, survival, war, survival skills [X], juvenile fiction / war & military, juvenile fiction / people & places / europe, rominten heath (poland and russia), prussia, east (poland and russia), war fiction [X], survival fiction