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- Kimberly Jones
- Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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Let's use our imagination!
You are on a boat sailing the ocean and suddenly there is a storm. Waves are crashing the boat frantically. You go below deck to ride out the storm. Hours later when everything has settled you emerge from the boat only to realize you've crashed on a deserted island.
Grab a pencil and a sheet of paper. Set your timer for 5 minutes. Now only choosing ten items in your home write your must-have supply list on the island. Once you are finished share your survival list using #accessfreely #brainbreak on social media.
Now that you have your list squared away check out some of these survival stories below.
Minecraft
The Island
Published in 2017
An official tie-in to the globally popular video game traces the story of a new hero stranded in the world of Minecraft who must survive a harsh environment while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious island.
Hatchet
Published in 2009
This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared?and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present?and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent?s divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair?it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.
My Side of the Mountain
Published in 1999
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Published in 1960
The gripping story of young Karana, an Indian girl who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. A quiet acceptance of fate characterizes her ordeal.
Stranded
Published in 2013
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.