Supplemental Reading Suggestions

Exciting adventures to spark your imagination!

SOUNDER
Armstrong, William
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of his devoted dog Sounder.

FALCON'S EGG
Gray, Luli
A girl finds a large, hot, red egg in Central Park and cares for the remarkable creature which hatches from it.

MORNING GIRL
Dorris, Michael
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother, Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on a Caribbean island just before Columbus lands.

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Burnford, Sheila
Two dogs and a cat support each other through hardships, hunger, and danger as they travel two hundred and fifty miles across Canada to reach home.

ABEL'S ISLAND
Steig, William
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return home.

ROBINSON CRUSOE
Daniel Dafoe
Based on the true story of a man who ran away to sea and requested to be left on an uninhabited island.

TONING THE SWEEP
Johnson, Angela
On a trip to the desert to bring her dying grandmother home, Emily learns about the family's tragic past and gains pride as a third generation black woman.

STONE FOX
Gardiner, John Reynolds
Willy tries desperately to win a sled dog race against an enigmatic Indian.

SAVE QUEEN OF SHEBA
Moeri, Louise
After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.

KIDNAPPED
Robert Louis Stevenson
A novel of murder, betrayal, and adventure on the high seas. After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
O'Dell, Scott
When her younger brother dies in 1800, Karana, an Indian girl, spends eighteen years alone on the Island of San Nicholas, far off the coast of California. 1961

A GIRL NAMED DISASTER
Farmer, Nancy
While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

HATCHET
Paulsen, Gary
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness alone, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

STINKER FROM SPACE
Service, Pamela
An agent of the Sylon Confederacy who is fleeing from enemy ships, crash lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet.

THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR
Hamilton, Virginia
Thirteen-year-old Thomas and his family move from North Carolina to a strange, old mansion in Ohio which was once a station on the Underground Railroad.

To find these and many other exciting survival and adventure books, check out the New York Public Library list of books for kids. Your local library probably also has a reading list. Check it out!