Family Survival Fiction

The world that ended with a whimper is about to be reborn with a bang. In a near-future United States on the brink of total collapse, Mia Thompson leads her teenage nephew and grief-stricken step-daughter on a treacherous journey westward across a depopulated Midwest. Siphoning gas from ambandoned cars and hunting for game along the way, Mia is forced to confront the harsh reality: that she doesn’t have the strength to ensure their broken family will survive. And then, they encounter the bandits.

One devastating event, seven teens--their families dead--and a choice no one should have to make. Samson has a close, welcoming family and when he, and six others, are violently expelled from the Spaceship Victoria into deep space minutes before watching his home and his family explode, Samson has no idea how to cope. And that’s a problem. When the EV Victoria explodes, Kay gets scared. Scared because her father and step dad were dead; scared because she was locked in a tin can with six people she didn't know; scared because they had to make a choice--wait years for rescue or travel ...

International human rights activist Lisa Shannon spent many afternoons at the kitchen table having tea with her friend Francisca Thelin, who often spoke of her childhood in Congo. Thelin would conjure vivid images of lush flower gardens, fish the size of small children, and of children running barefoot through her family's coffee plantation, gorging themselves on fruit from the robust and plentiful mango trees.

The Johnson family's excitement for their long-awaited vacation to Alaska was palpable. Jack and Sarah sat at the kitchen table, pouring over maps and brochures, discussing their plans for exploring the remote beauty of the Arctic landscape. They marveled at the opportunity this trip would provide for their children, Emma and Ethan, to learn and grow through firsthand experiences.

Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers—despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party—while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning—thanks, she's sure, to Luis's ex-girlfriend, Shawni.

Ten year-old Benny travels west with a knife-throwing, card-playing bank robber, a savage black stallion, and the promise that God will never leave him. Can he trust that promise? Explore this Historical adventure in greater detail and understand the time period better. Study Guide to Benny and the Bank Robber. Teacher edition includes the full story text with comprehension questions, thought questions, and essay and research suggestions plus vocabulary by chapter and answer keys and project suggestions.

Adrienne Gomez and Louis Fontana are a young couple with a five-year-old daughter named Gina. Their lives are turned upside down by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Both Adrienne and Louis lose their jobs and struggle through unemployment, the stay-at-home order, relationship troubles, protests, and death in the family. When they reach their lowest point, they are lucky to have someone come to their aid.

Feisty Maia Etxeleku is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. She spends her life wiping up spilt Sauvignon and hoovering around handbags before rushing back home to skivvy after her children's feckless father on an estate where survival depends on your ability to look the other way. But an unusual inheritance catapults her into a different world where no child can survive without organic apricots and Kumon maths classes - and no woman can contemplate a week without Pilates and pedicures.

Xaverie is scheduled to attend one of Second Earth's most prestigious schools. She soon becomes an integral part of a group of peers, and they all come to find that the school is more than it seems to be. Every cage has a lock that can be picked, and this group is about to break free. However, freedom has its own consequences - and Xaverie and her friends will find themselves in more trouble than they can imagine.

Living in San Francisco has been wonderful for the Welles and Dyer families, next-door neighbors and best friends who are so close they are really like one big family. Jim Welles is a successful lawyer, and Bob Dyer is a geologist – a profession which is about to become useful in a way nobody ever wanted it to be. Their sons are two teenage boys who are scheduled to play in a state championship baseball game Saturday, on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. Mother Nature has other plans, however. The families are not the only things that get separated when an earth-shaking event shocks the...

No one dares to leave the District - the towering structure of glass and steel that is their protection against the unruly bands of Outsiders that roam Mundreel and the deadly rain that carries the disease that kills all over the age of 19. This skyscraper stands amid the urban devastation, the city rumored to have once been called "Montreal". Esther and her allies have created a haven on the rooftop, a garden that flourishes, and a home for her new baby, hidden from all but the very few who know her secret.

It’s December 1902, and Rose O’Leary is looking forward to her baby girl’s first Christmas. But then tragedy strikes: her husband dies at the shipyard where he works, and within days his friend Nathaniel makes it plain he’s determined to have her. Rose flees with her child but soon finds the world is a cruel place for a beautiful woman with no protection. More tragedy ensues, and yet, although she’s bruised and broken, Rose is a fighter.

Their distance provided a margin of safety, but only if they used hand weapons with a standard projectile. In the brief glimpse of them, there were no apparent weapons. He considered retreating - however, it was a choice against the nature of his people’s militaristic psychological makeup. Besides, they were walking for days since arriving in their new world, and at the forest’s edge was the first sighting of a species other than birds, animals, or critters that slither. Evidence of a civilized society did not exist - but they were not alone.

Five siblings live a happy life out of an abandoned camper in a national forest - cooking by the fire, foraging their own food, washing their own clothes, tending their own camp - the only problem is, they aren't sure where their parents are, and they've caught a mysterious shadow watching them from the edge of the woods. They've gotten on this far by staying together, cooperating, and making it work - but as the problems pile on, will this family of children, with the eldest member no older a middle grader, make it out together?

In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy - and to begin creating her own. Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first female scientists of the 19th century. She knows every specimen and rare artifact that her explorer father hid deep in a cave before he died, and she feels a great responsibility to protect the objects (particularly a mesmerizing and dangerous one called Medicine Head).

After a plane crash sees a group of seven teens washed up on a desert island, their first thought is survival. But a terrible secret from a party the night before has followed them ashore. Facing deadly threats and the fear of being stranded forever, they quickly discover that being the most popular kid in high school doesn’t help when you’re fighting to stay alive. As the island deals each of them a dangerous blow, it’s clear that someone is looking for justice. Now survival depends on facing the truth about that party: who was hurt that night, and who let it happen?

David, Neil, and Ryan are brothers that never get along. And their mother finally had enough! She sent them out to the sea and told them not come back until they have figured out how to be brothers. While the brothers were still arguing on the boat, the sea opened, and a strange beam of light appeared. It surrounded the youngest brother, Ryan. Before Neil or David could do anything, the light beam took Ryan into the sea. Left behind on the boat, David and Neil decided they must do everything possible to get their brother back.

The brand burned into Charlie's arm is a constant reminder that family doesn't exist, people only care about their own selfish interests, and a handful of pendants, if united, could lead to negative consequences for the entire world. All he wants is to escape his perilous past and the people who want him dead. By accident, he arrives in the small town of Maibe, Nebraska where he has the chance to change his life an

From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It is a haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to silence them. For fans of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, this audio edition includes a bonus conversation between Gabriela Garcia and Roxane Gay.

Nia would do anything to win the approval of her boyfriend Scott and his friends, especially mean girl Olivia. Olivia dares Nia to explore an abandoned prison. Facing dark tunnels, distant noises and creepy mementoes left behind by incarcerated criminals will surely all be worth it to finally become part of the group. But it isn't long before Nia and her little sister, Kayla, find themselves trapped inside. And then Kayla vanishes. Suddenly, this feels like more than a game gone wrong.