Títulos en Historias de supervivencia

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase.

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life. Years later, in contemporary South Sudan, a girl named Nya must walk eight hours a day to fetch water. The walk is grueling, but there is unexpected hope.

A scientist, his nephew and a guide follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. Classic science fiction! 

Beyond the frozen mountains there lies an oasis from the frigid cold and the howling winds. A place the animals call Lake Zuron. What a wonderful place, happy creatures of all kinds, living in harmony and warmth thanks to their very own fire-breathing dragon named Daniel. But one day everything changed when the unthinkable happened. The dragon fire goes out, and immediately the air begins to chill. Things were not looking good, but just when all hope was lost, an unlikely hero steps up.

An electromagnetic-pulse attack has destroyed the country's power grid, sending the United States back to the Dark Ages. Now Dee and Grandpa must face a world without electricity and clean water - let alone cell phones and the Internet - as well as the chaos brought on by this sudden catastrophe. Soon their town begins to collapse as disease and lawlessness run rampant.

Frightful, the peregrine falcon who first appeared in My Side of the Mountain, is back. Her amazing journey through life continues in the face of many rousing wildlife adventures. Will she survive the wilderness, even though she was raised by a human? When an old friend rescues her from captors, Frightful soars into the unfamiliar woodlands and searches for home. Before finding her mountain, she adopts a nest of motherless peregrine chicks.

Join 11-year-old Josh as he leaves his affluent New Jersey home for the rural Northern California town where his mother was born and raised. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle. Josh and his cousin Eleanor bond during an overnight camping trip. But they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness.

The last time Rachel and her friends entered the giant Yeerk pool beneath their town things went very bad. This time they plan to be careful, and sneak in as roaches, just to spy. Once they're inside, though, the team gets caught. But right as things are looking their most dire, everything stops. Everything. Then Rachel and the Animorphs hear a voice. It belongs to a very old, very powerful being, and it says it can save them. But if it does, the Earth will be defenseless.

Overpopulation throttles the world's food supply. In 2050, the government of the Americas introduces the Food Crisis Actnew measures that create a system for growing and rationing food. Calla Ryan is pretty much your average teen, except for enduring hunger every day of her life. One morning, new sensors at her high school determine that she exceeds the weight limit of the State, and they send her north to a "fat camp" or reeducation center. Calla begins to realize the center holds many secrets. Her counselor dies mysteriously, and new shipments of recruits are the picture of health.

"Lo scoiattolo Squiz e la grande Quercia" è la storia che narra di una incredibile avventura. L'azione si svolge in un piccolo villaggio, ai margini del bosco. Protagonisti sono quattro piccoli scoiattoli ed una grande amicizia che li unisce da sempre. Sempre insieme! Tutti insieme si vince! Questo è il loro motto, e restando uniti supereranno mille difficoltà alla ricerca di un antidoto per salvare la loro vecchia amica, la Quercia.

The smell of smoke. A layer of stinky fog dims the sky. Except along the horizon, which is suddenly flickering orange above the treetops. Wildfire, moving fast. Heading in our direction. Birds, deer, squirrels, and raccoons explode from the surrounding forest, racing to stay ahead of the flames. The message couldn’t be clearer. Run. If you want to live, run.

Since the opening of Glacier National Park in 1910, there were no reported fatal bear attacks until one summer night in 1967, when two grizzlies attacked campers and killed two young women. Inspired by the dramatic and tragic story of that night, and how it eventually influenced the fate of the grizzly bear in the continental United States, Lauren Tarshis has crafted yet another gripping novel in the I Survived series that is sure to shine a light on a terrifying and mostly unknown moment in US history.

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, author Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the story of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history and foundation for the Allied victory in World War II.

There were warning signs that the molasses tank would break. The steel sides moaned and groaned. Molasses oozed from its seams. But the people of Boston's North End - mostly poor immigrants - were powerless to complain to the big molasses company. On a bright January day in 1919, the tank finally broke and almost three million gallons of molasses rushed the neighborhood. At 15 feet tall, 160 feet wide, and traveling at 35 miles per hour, the gooey wave was more destructive than any flood of water would have been.

Against all odds, cubs Stellan, Jytte, Third, and Froya have found the key hidden inside the legendary Den of Forever Frost. Now, they have everything they need to destroy the dangerous ice clock. Everything . . . except an army. The power-hungry Grand Patek will stop at nothing to protect the clock, the source of his authority. And so, it's up to the cubs to convince the animals of Ga'Hoole to join the fight - a journey that'll take them from the fabled owl parliament to the rugged territory of the wolves of the beyond.

Il professor Volt è scomparso sulle vette dell'Himalaya, mentre cercava il misterioso yeti! Appena l'ho saputo, sono corso a cercarlo ed è iniziata questa avventura: gli amici per me sono importanti, anzi importantissimi!

Nessuno sa come né perché, dopo un violento nubifragio, il cubo di cemento della biblioteca Jacques Prévert prende il largo e si ritrova a navigare nell'oceano. A bordo il direttore, la bibliotecaria, la signora delle pulizie, una prima media al completo con il professore di tecnologia e il giovane Saïd. Gli improvvisati marinai dovranno trovare il modo per sopravvivere. Per fortuna, ad aiutarli in questa avventura, ci sono i libri della biblioteca!

Non ci sono regole certe, né punti di arrivo nel vasto mondo di sogno e avventura in cui precipita Alice. Là dove l'imprevedibilità regna sovrana, la bionda bambina di sette anni imparerà a destreggiarsi tra gli ordini bislacchi del Coniglio e gli strambi indovinelli del Cappellaio, tra una partita di croquet con la terribile Regina di Cuori e il tè matto della Lepre Marzolina.

Nel fantastico mondo di Belbaffo, un gattone rosso che abita in una bella casetta vicino al fiume, sta per accadere qualcosa di veramente insolito. Lui è un tipo tranquillo: un gatto un po' pigro che ama starsene a casa, seduto sulla sua poltrona preferita, di fronte al caminetto acceso...

Ciondolino è la storia di un bambino trasformato magicamente in formica e catapultato in un formicaio. Da qui inizia l'avventura, che porterà Gigino, soprannominato Ciondolino, alla scoperta del mondo delle formiche. Una favola educativa, avventurosa e divertente.