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Pulse Pounding Adventure Tales

Lost in the wilderness? Stuck on a mountain? Stranded on an island (or in space)? Fighting for life in a postapocalyptic world? We've got you an end-of-summer adventure read waiting for you on this list!

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  • Atlas has been climbing for years, but after being forced to stay behind as his dad joins a team of Mount Everest climbers, he sees an avalanche trapping his dad's expedition. Alongside Sherpa Chodak, Atlas begins a journey to rescue the team.
    Book, 2025New York : Scholastic Press, 2025.
  • This breathtaking, page-turning graphic novel is a supernatural survival story in which a grieving teen finds himself in a haunting alternate reality — the frightening embodiment of his depression.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York, New York : Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
  • Ever since the sun disappeared behind ominous clouds, our world has been plunged into total darkness. We're out of supplies, and the creatures outside are multiplying and hunting us down. Our only chance of survival is to hide in silence.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York, NY : Kana, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2025.
  • What should be another routine crossing of the Atlantic for Emery and Neeta turns deadly when new management steps in to run the SS Lark. Their intentions are less than good. Perhaps even a little demonic.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Union Square & Co., [2025]
  • Xavier Oaks reluctantly leaves his mom and brother to join his dad and his dad's new pregnant wife at the cabin, only to awaken one morning and discover it's like the house has been moved and they're trapped inside a dome.
    Book, 2025New York : Scholastic Press, 2025.
  • Queer teen CJ must rely on their knowledge of horror-movie rules to survive when a prophetic manuscript thrusts her into the center of a new murder spree in a town notorious for its past massacres.
    Book, 2025New York : Bloomsbury, 2025.
  • Rhi discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and is swept up in the ensuing mystery: Are the Wild Girls of Happy Valley lost princesses from a faraway land, as they believe, or are they brainwashed victims of a deranged kidnapper?
    Book, 2024New York : Zando Young Readers, 2024.
  • Atlas has lost her way. She's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierra. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that her dad died.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • A luxurious cruise ship, the Arcadia, became a refugee camp after being driven from Europe by an apocalyptic war. Esther is a loyal citizen. Nik is a rebel. Thrown together, their lives and the lives of everyone on the ship will change forever.
    Book, 2023Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Fire, [2023]