Author

Call #

Title

Murphy, Jim

614.5 MUR

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

This book describes the epidemic of yellow fever and the toll it took on Philadelphia's residents in 1793.

Krakauer, Jon

796.52 KRA

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

The author's narrative of his experiences on the ill-fated 1996 Everest expedition.

Philbrick, Nathaniel

910 PHI

Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult book "In the Heart of the Sea."

Lansing, Alfred

910.4 LAN

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

The harrowing story of Shackleton’s disastrous expedition to the South Pole.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

941.5081 BAR

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845 – 1850

Draws from letters, diaries, and other documents to chronicle the Irish potato famine of 1845-50, describing the political and personal impact it had on Ireland and its people, and presenting illustrations from contemporary newspapers.

Kraske, Robert

996.1 Kra

Marooned: The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe

Presents the story of Scottish mariner Alexander Selkirk and his experiences marooned on a South Pacific island for four years.  Inspired the famous novel.

Allende, Isabel

ALL

I, Zorro

The legendary black-masked Mexican swordsman.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

AND

Fever 1793

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. By the author of Speak.

Benchley, Peter

BEN

Jaws

Very big fish eats people. “Better than the very good movie” – Mr. Dupper.

Cole, Stephen

COL

Thieves Like Us

A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.

Cooper, James Fenimore

COO

Last of the Mohicans

The noble scout Hawkeye and his Indian friend Chingachgook get caught up in the battle for Fort William Henry.

Defoe, Daniel

DEF

Robinson Crusoe

The famous tale of a man stranded on a desert island.  Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk.

Fama, Elizabeth

FAM

Overboard

Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.

Forrester, C. S.

FOR

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Adventure on a British Man-o-War during the Napoleonic Wars.

Halam, Ann

HAL

Dr. Franklin’s Island

When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

Holm, Jennifer L.

HOL

Boston Jane:  An Adventure

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Johnson, Maureen

JOH

13 Little Blue Envelopes

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

Oppel, Kenneth

OPP

Airborn

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Paulsen, Gary

PAU

Hatchet

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Rees, Celia

REE

Pirates! :  The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

STE

Treasure Island

Crafty, one-legged Long John Silver will do anything to retrieve the pirate’s treasure.

Wolf, Alan

WOL

New Found Land

The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.