Island of the Blue Dolphins
Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu.
2,559-word summary · 11 min read
Tag: survival
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan.
2,271-word summary · 10 min read
Hatchet
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
2,770-word summary · 12 min read
Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
The Death Cure
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
2,955-word summary · 13 min read
The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
The 5th Wave
Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.
3,063-word summary · 14 min read
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
2,326-word summary · 10 min read
The Scorch Trials
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
2,097-word summary · 9 min read
The Stand
A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.
1,959-word summary · 9 min read
The Four Winds
Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California.
2,099-word summary · 9 min read
Room
Five year old Jack narrates life with Ma in an 11 foot locked room.
1,960-word summary · 9 min read