Open Court

 

Grade 4

 

Survival                     

 

 

 

613.6 Dow                    

           Dowswell, Paul.  Tales of real survival.  London : Usborne

                Publishing Ltd., 1995.  From polar explorers marooned in

                Antarctica, to Moon-bound astronauts aboard a stricken

                spaceship, Tales of real survival records the courage,

                endurance and ingenuity of survivors.

 

641.597 Per                  

           Perl, Lila.  Slumps, grunts, and snickerdoodles : what Colonial

                America ate and why.  New York : Seabury Press, [1975].

                Examines the diets and culinary innovations of the American

                colonists and gives thirteen colonial recipes, including

                succotash, snickerdoodles, and spoon bread.

 

973 Hud                      

           Hudson, Wade.  Five brave explorers.  New York : Scholastic,

                1995.  Photographs and text present the life stories of five

                explorers: Esteban Dorantes, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,

                Matthew A. Henson, Mae C. Jemison, and James Pierce

                Beckwourth.

 

F Buc                        

           Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.  The big wave.

                New York : HarperCollins, c1976.  When his family and

                village are swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live

                with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

 

F O'Bri                      

           O'Brien, Robert C.  Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh.

 

F Pau                        

           Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet.  New York : Simon & Schuster Books for

                Young Readers, c1987.  After a plane crash,

                thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the

                wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid

                of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to

                survive his parents' divorce.

 

F Ste                         

           Steig, William, 1907-.  Abel's island.  1st ed.  New York :

                Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.  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 to his home.

 

PB f                         

           O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.  Island of the Blue Dolphins.  New York

                : Dell, 1984, c1960.  Records the courage and self-reliance

                of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an

                isolated island off the California coast when her tribe

                emigrated and she was left behind.

 

PB f                          

           Hobbs, Will.  Far North.  New York : Avon, [1997], c1996.  After

                the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe

                and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter

                in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.

 

PB f                         

           Osborne, Mary Pope.  Adaline Falling Star.  1st ed.  New York :

                Scholastic Press, 2000.  Feeling abandoned by her deceased

                Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star

                runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is

                staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with

                only a mongrel dog for company.

 

PB fs                        

           Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet.

 

VC                           

           Children of the wagon train.

 

VC                           

           People of the Plains.