True Stories of Survival: Usborne True Stories

Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 140956911X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
From shark attacks and blazing airships to exploding spacecraft and sinking submarines, find out what made the difference between life and death in these ten thrilling stories of survival. Gripping and engaging for readers who prefer real life to fiction.

The World's Most Amazing Survival Stories

Author: Tim O'Shei
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736864374
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
"Describes 10 of the world's most amazing survival stories in a countdown format"--Provided by publisher.

Traits for Survival

Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1480746398
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about adaptation through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.

Survival Vocabulary Stories

Author: Katherine Whitten
Publisher: Walch Publishing
ISBN: 9780825128639
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This book will expand your students word instruction to real-life situations. It will develop students' thinking skills through probing questions and writing activities and allows for flexible instruction to meet students' individual needs.

Stories of Survival

Author: Fiona Beddall
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292293454
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description

Noelle at Sea

Author: Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
ISBN: 1496582519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Noelle feels like the luckiest girl in the world to be cruising the Atlantic aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is made even better by her new friend, Pauline, a girl who is traveling with her father to live in America. The girls spend the first days of the journey exploring, but on the fifth night, Noelle awakes to a sinking ship. Women and children will be rescued first, and Noelle realizes motherless Pauline will be left all alone. Despite her parents' wishes, Noelle breaks away from her family to find and help her friend. Nonfiction information, a gloassary, and reader response questions make up the back matter of this Girls Survive story.

Erupt!

Author: Joan Marie Galat
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426329105
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
100 fun facts for kids about all kinds of volcanoes.

Mary and the Trail of Tears

Author: Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
ISBN: 1496587146
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

Survival at 120 Above

Author: Debbie S. Miller
Publisher: Walker Childrens
ISBN: 9780802798138
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After exploring one of the coldest places on Earth, Debbie S. Miller travels to one of the hottest places, to introduce readers to the variety of animals who call the desert home and show the ways they have adapted to survive temperatures as high as 120 degrees. Creatures such as the sand goanna and red kangaroo have fascinating and unique coping mechanisms for keeping it cool at these extreme temperatures. Miller's expert research and accessible writing will captivate readers as Jon Van Zyle's signature illustrations beautifully depict these animals and their desert habitat.

The Greatest Survival Stories of All Time

Author: Cara Tabachnick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612439225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
This collection of survival stories recounts the harrowing true experiences of people across the globe who faced certain death—and survived. The stories in this riveting volume seem too unbelievable to be true. Lost individuals facing the most severe natural disasters, the most dangerous situations, and the most inhospitable conditions . . . somehow making it out alive. From plane crashes and sinking ships to surviving in freezing forests and scorching deserts, this anthology includes some of the most famous, unbelievable tales of beating the odds. This book features gripping tales of sheer bravery and quick thinking, including: Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who floated for thirteen months alone in the Pacific ocean Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to escape the canyon he’d been trapped in Lincoln Hall, who was abandoned on Mount Everest . . . and many more.