Family Survival Fiction

The adventure continues! The family and of course Bruce Lee the Scar-Faced Ninja Attack Kitty from Japan (Who Smells Like Poop) get deeper into Minecraft, learning more about the game as they go. They’re finally starting to feel somewhat comfortable, but what happens when Dad fishes up an old book that tells a very strange and very scary history of the game?

For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader she’s destined to be?

A historical adventure novel set in the Yukon Territory and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Join the Bradford family on an exhilarating journey through the icy wilderness in "The Golden North," a tale of adventure, resilience, and family bonds. When a daring invitation from Uncle Will beckons them to the gold-laden territories of the north, Charles Bradford, along with his sons David and Roly, must navigate uncertain paths, dangerous encounters, and transformative experiences in a land ripe with promise and peril. As they leave behind the familiar comforts of Connecticut, the ...

Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his young son, Tim, set out on a late season backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They find beauty and solidarity in the outdoors, making friends along the trail and falling into the rhythms of an expedition. But when reports of warfare and social collapse reach the ranger station, Doug—seeking to protect the only family he has left—withdraws even further into the backcountry.

There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that’s what April’s father tells her when his scientific research takes them to a faraway Arctic outpost. But one night, April catches a glimpse of something distinctly bear-shaped loping across the horizon. A polar bear who shouldn’t be there - who is hungry, lonely, and a long way from home.

Although this story begins in the darkest of places, Auschwitz, it manifests into a beautiful and romantic story of love that spans six decades. A sixteen year old Hungarian boy notices a beautiful sixteen year old Polish girl across a crowded room. Their eyes meet, an instant attraction forms, and eventually they fall madly in love. However, there is a problem; they are both prisoners in Auschwitz. This is the story of Peter Florea, a young Jewish boy who makes a terrible mistake when in 1943 he volunteers to be sent from Hungary to a ‘work camp,’ but arrives to find he is actually in ...

This is not a true story; I hope it never becomes one. In the summer of 1956, sixteen-year-old Marguerite Stearle, daughter of a housekeeper, falls in love with the squire of Mirelton’s nephew, Myles Featherstone. A delightful romance ensues, but in a class-conscious society, Myles has no choice but to end the liaison. With few prospects, a wretched Marguerite embarks on a new life in London, hoping her heart will mend. Unexpectedly, Marguerite is introduced to a tobacco farmer from the British colony of Rhodesia. Falling in love yet again, a new future beckons, one full of excitement as ...

Maximum Ride and her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel - are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time. Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of whack job.

Some legacies are carved in stone. Others are soaked in oil, blood, and regret. Spanning five generations of the Chiswell family—from 1845 to the modern day—The Gospel According to Texas is a haunting, literary saga of land, sin, and redemption. When Elias Chiswell abandons everything to chase a new life on the Texas frontier, he believes he’s outrunning his past. But the land he claims has a voice—and a memory. Told in part by Texas itself, this Southern Gothic novel weaves journal entries, confessions, and mythic narration into a sweeping story of faith, failure, and family legacy...

The Accidental Minecraft Family has one mission: Find a way to get back home. Dad insists a a witch will be able to help them, but it's not like they can just spawn one. After traveling the perilous journey to the closest village, what will they find? Friend or foe?

Jack, Kate, their parents, and pet cat Bruce Lee the Scar-Faced Ninja Attack Kitty from Japan Who Smells Like Poop went to bed one night like normal. But when they woke up, everything was not normal. They had been pulled into the kid’s favorite video game: Minecraft! Mom and Dad don’t know anything about this strange new world they must learn to survive in.

The Accidental Minecraft Family now has a mission! They know they must eventually explore the wider world and figure out just what the mysterious book they found was all about. Preparing for a long journey takes a lot of work, though. Kate finally gets to start a farm! Will they be able to make enough armor, food, and more importantly, protect it all from being eaten by Bruce the cat?

When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock 'n' roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp. Working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children, weak from hunger, malaria, or sheer exhaustion, dying before his eyes.

It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies. But when Elder discovers shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed.

3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.

How far are you willing to go to survive? Tragedy has struck. The United States has been left without power and no formidable help appears to be on the way. With the country left in shambles, many fight to survive, others struggle to restore what was lost, and some rise to power. While the world is in chaos, Levi and Amelia Jones, a morally questionable set of twins, embrace the end of the world and use every advantage around them to make the new world theirs, but nothing happens without consequence and at a cost.

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.

Don't call them heroes. But these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, aka Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't - like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days.

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Freddy 'Fritz' Becker is a loving father, devoted husband and dedicated parole officer who is strictly by the book. Ethics, codes of conduct and law and order are the governing principles of Fritz's life, until that life is turned upside down when he's charged and convicted of murder. Forced to question his long held beliefs, he is suddenly thrust into another calamity when a super-EMP is detonated over North America. Faced with this new situation, he must not only struggle to survive, but find a way to clear his name....

After being betrayed and captured by the most heinous survivors of the human race, B Smith lands back in the clutches of a fiend she had hoped to never see again, someone who is intent on making her suffer in the most tortuous ways. Discovering the fate of loved ones from B's past adds to the agony and calls into question just how much B is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice.