wilderness areas

With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.

"Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--Provided by publisher.

With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.

"Chris and Frank's sailing vessel sinks and they are stranded alone in the wilds of Alaska. They don't like each other at all, but to survive they must build a relationship"--Provided by publisher.

Hunted by the St. Clouds and a rival Cabal, the race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion as Maya and her friends search for information about their powers, but Maya is unprepared for the answers that await her.

"After fourteen-year old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness-survival program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while the police find the two killers. And so the nightmare begins"--Back cover.

Thoreau stresses the importance of a quiet reflective life and the rewards of a non-materialistic existence in "Walden" and discusses his belief in nonviolent protests against an unjust government in "On the duty of civil disobedience".

By following clues from a dream and taking photographs of endangered wilderness areas, eleven-year-old Sarah and a Native American environmentalist try to prevent the commercial development of a southwestern canyon.

In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.

Presents an annotated version of the 1854 edition of "Walden, " in which Thoreau offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from two years of solitude living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts.