Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.

"The last thing bookworm Frederick Platt wants in his cloistered, little life is to explore a dirty, nasty cave. A glass of warm milk and a good book at home is more his style. But when vengeance turns the tables, Frederick wakes, bruised and battered at the bottom of a dark pit, with only a flickering flashlight for company. Surrounded by his worst phobias and with cold and starvation gnawing at his heels, Frederick struggles to survive deep in the...

Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters--but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no attention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon realizes...

Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana. They suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and they spot the smoke of a forest fire above them. In order to survive, they need to learn to depend on each other - or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.

Quincy is on his first black bear hunting trip in Maine, when he breaks his leg and has to depend on his friends to recover the bear he shot.

When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.

The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.

When his dad takes him and his sister to Camp Wild Survival during summer break, Jake Mathews and his family find themselves in some harrowing, hilarious situations.