When you change your name, do you change who you are? Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa's bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war. With no hope in sight and supplies dwindling, Anna finds herself taking care of an orphaned...

Billy and his friends have been taking refuge in outer space to avert this catastrophe. But what will it take to survive?

Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

When zombies take over Phoenix, Arizona, Zack Clarke, his best friend Rice, and his older sister's mean friend Madison Miller team up to try to defeat the undead, or at least survive one another.

After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.

In order to help his troubled son Ethan, Ethan's father has him dropped off in the Sahara desert with a guide and three other young people in order to hike 200 km to the city of Tunis.

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.

Fourteen-year-old McKenna will not stop competing in a new sled dog race in the Canadian wilderness even though she is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease.

"Dora, a teenage explorer, leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold"--From www.imdb.com.