Showing results for "Wild Fictions" in Survival Stories

Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants and even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill. But a new life is now beginning for Roz - she has been taken away, far away from her island, back to civilisation. Where she must pretend that she is a robot like any other - there to follow orders and to carry out tasks on the farm where she now works.

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

The smell of smoke. A layer of stinky fog dims the sky. Except along the horizon, which is suddenly flickering orange above the treetops. Wildfire, moving fast. Heading in our direction. Birds, deer, squirrels, and raccoons explode from the surrounding forest, racing to stay ahead of the flames. The message couldn’t be clearer. Run. If you want to live, run.

Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing towards the island, bringing new dangers for the animals. Forced inland they will have to fight over fewer resources - and Roz realises that she must march into the waves and undertake an incredible undersea adventure to find a way to protect her beloved island and all who live on it.

Nick has always loved camping, but his cousins, Andy and Devin, aren't outdoors guys - they're jocks. Nick isn't even sure why his cousins wanted to go on the camping trip. They don't listen to his warnings about campfires and bears, and they make fun of everything Nick does. When Devin finds himself in real danger, can Nick save him in time?

Kelly roams the outskirts of the forest with her friends while they attempt to collect various bugs for a science assignment. Soon, a particularly rare butterfly catches her eye and she wanders into the woods in hot pursuit until it suddenly disappears. When Kelly turns back, she realizes she is completely turned around with no idea how to get back to her friends.

Eden's visit to The Escape sees her dropped into a world of puzzles and peril with no way out. She must find the keys, climb the levels and meet her fate. But what if she's not playing the game? Maybe the game is playing her...

When Charlie’s longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie’s world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town. There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It’s become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins.

Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip when he's awoken by screams. The dam has failed. The river is surging, and their camp will be under water in a matter of moments. As the shrieking roar of the river rushes closer, the kids scramble to higher ground. They make it; their counselors do not. Now they're on their own, with barely any food or supplies, in the middle of the Montana wilderness. Do Daniel and his four classmates have what it takes to stay alive until they can get rescued?

Zoe's beloved aunt Kim is passing through the valley and surprises Zoe by taking her camping with Harvey and Lassie. On the way, Zoe insists they set up camp higher in the mountains to be closer to the stars. Kim acquiesces on the condition that the children take great care because the trail to the new destination can be perilous. After a night under the stars, Kim is bitten by a snake.

Join 11-year-old Josh as he leaves his affluent New Jersey home for the rural Northern California town where his mother was born and raised. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle. Josh and his cousin Eleanor bond during an overnight camping trip. But they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness.

When a tsunami heads for the coast, Nick Chase and Jess Hardy have to run. They make it into the woods above the bay—only to see the sea flooding their whole neighborhood along the shore. Destroying everything.

Stella arbeitet an der Erfindung einer Zeit-Maschine und ist fast damit fertig, als ihr das entscheidende Bauteil, der Zeit-Booster, ins Meer fällt. Es verhakt sich ausgerechnet an einem Rotlachs, der gerade zur „Wanderung" zu seinem Heimatfluss aufbricht. Die Lachswanderungen sind gefährliche Reisen, bei denen mannigfaltige Gefahren und Hindernisse überwunden werden müssen. Die Wanderung der Lachse geht weiter und die Gefahren durch Bären, Seeadler, Staudämme und Wasserfälle werden nicht weniger.

Average Joe takes to the wilderness to track down Bigfoot and become a school legend in this brilliantly funny adventure from Lollie Award winning author Jenny Pearson. Joe is tired of being called average and feeling completely forgettable at school. So when he hears that a Bigfoot-like beast...

Rupert Jefferson ist zurück. Doch sein neuestes Buch ist nichts für schwache Nerven. Denn diesmal hat Rupert eine fantastische Abenteuergeschichte geschrieben, die es in sich hat. Nehmt also all euren Mut zusammen und begleitet Roland und seinen besten Freund Garg, den Barbaren, auf eine wahre Heldenreise. Werden die beiden es schaffen, Rolands Mom aus den Fängen des Weißen Zauberers zu befreien? Und was noch viel wichtiger ist: Werden sie am Ende überleben?