Survival Books for Kids
Browse 1,399 children's books about survival, each rated for reading level and content intensity. Find books that match both your child's reading ability and emotional readiness.
Parents looking for survival books for kids face the same problem with every search: the books are rated for reading level, or they're rated for age — but rarely both, and almost never together. A seven-year-old who reads at a fifth-grade level isn't necessarily ready for a fifth-grade book's emotional weight. That mismatch — what HootRated calls the Gifted Kid Paradox — is the entire reason we built this site.
Across our catalog of survival books, you'll find titles spanning picture books through Grade 11. About 30% are rated Gentle or Mild — good fits for sensitive readers or younger children with advanced reading skills. Roughly 19% sit at the Intense or Very Intense end, with deeper emotional or thematic territory typically better suited to upper-grade readers or kids who specifically want a meatier read.
Use the intensity badges (color-coded: green for gentle, amber for moderate, red for intense) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For deeper context on what each intensity level means, see our rating methodology.
On Top Of Concord Hill
Maria D. Wilkes
On Top Of Concord Hill
Maria D. Wilkes
Level 5-6 Moderate
Treasures in the dust
Tracey Porter
Treasures in the dust
Tracey Porter
Level 5-6 Moderate
Darkest Hour
Erin Hunter
Darkest Hour
Erin Hunter
Level 6-7 Moderate
These is My Words
Nancy Turner
These is My Words
Nancy Turner
Level 5-6 Moderate
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Level 4-5 Gentle
The long winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The long winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Level 5-6 Mild
Rose's journal
Marissa Moss
Rose's journal
Marissa Moss
Level 4-5 Moderate
My name is Sally Little Song
Brenda Woods
My name is Sally Little Song
Brenda Woods
Level 4-5 Moderate
Lord of the flies
William Golding
Lord of the flies
William Golding
Level 5 Intense
Viking's dawn
Henry Treece
Viking's dawn
Henry Treece
Level 4-5 Moderate
Animorphs
Katherine Applegate
Animorphs
Katherine Applegate
Level 4-5 Moderate
The journal of C.J. Jackson
William Durbin
The journal of C.J. Jackson
William Durbin
Level 5-6 Moderate
Wolves
Carolyn Otto
Wolves
Carolyn Otto
Level 4-5 Intense
The cats in Krasinski Square
Karen Hesse
The cats in Krasinski Square
Karen Hesse
Level 4-5 Intense
Early autumn
Robert B. Parker
Early autumn
Robert B. Parker
Level 3-4 Moderate
Penguins
Emilie U. Lepthien
Penguins
Emilie U. Lepthien
Level 4 Moderate
Alaska
Dennis B. Fradin
Alaska
Dennis B. Fradin
Level 4-5 Intense
Arizona
Dennis B. Fradin
Arizona
Dennis B. Fradin
Level 4-5 Moderate
New York
Dennis B. Fradin
New York
Dennis B. Fradin
Level 4-5 Intense
Greenland
Jean F. Blashfield
Greenland
Jean F. Blashfield
Level 6-7 Intense
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Level 5-6 Intense
Wild children
Elaine Landau
Wild children
Elaine Landau
Level 7-8 Mild
Birds of prey
Sneed B. Collard
Birds of prey
Sneed B. Collard
Level 7-8 Moderate
Snow dog
Jim Kjelgaard
Snow dog
Jim Kjelgaard
Level 7-8 Moderate
Dust to eat
Michael L. Cooper
Dust to eat
Michael L. Cooper
Level 7-8 Moderate
Citizen soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Citizen soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Level 8-9 Intense
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Level 5-6 Very Intense
Cora Frear
Susan E. Goodman
Cora Frear
Susan E. Goodman
Level 3-4 Mild
The Oregon Trail
Elizabeth Dana Jaffe
The Oregon Trail
Elizabeth Dana Jaffe
Level 5-6 Moderate
Alaska
Patricia K. Kummer
Alaska
Patricia K. Kummer
Level 4-5 Moderate
Forgotten
Patricia H. Rushford
Forgotten
Patricia H. Rushford
Level 4-5 Intense
Stranded
Patricia H. Rushford
Stranded
Patricia H. Rushford
Level 3-4 Very Intense
Venus
Michael D. Cole
Venus
Michael D. Cole
Level 7-8 Intense
The dust bowl and the Depression in American history
Debra McArthur
The dust bowl and the Depression in American history
Debra McArthur
Level 8-9 Moderate
Winter of peril
Jan Andrews
Winter of peril
Jan Andrews
Level 4-5 Moderate
Little fish
Ralph Moisa
Little fish
Ralph Moisa
Level 2-3 Intense
Billy the Kid
Daniel E. Harmon
Billy the Kid
Daniel E. Harmon
Level 7 Intense
The Flamboya Tree
Clara Kelly
The Flamboya Tree
Clara Kelly
Level 6-7 Intense
Three against the tide
D. Anne Love
Three against the tide
D. Anne Love
Level 3-4 Moderate
Left behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
Left behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
Level 4-5 Intense
Left behind
Tim F. LaHaye
Left behind
Tim F. LaHaye
Level 5-6 Intense
Tribulation force
Tim F. LaHaye
Tribulation force
Tim F. LaHaye
Level 5-6 Moderate
Left Behind, the Kids: Battling the commander # 15
Tim F. LaHaye
Left Behind, the Kids: Battling the commander # 15
Tim F. LaHaye
Level 4-5 Moderate
Darkening skies
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye, Chris Fabry
Darkening skies
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye, Chris Fabry
Level 4-5 Moderate
Left Behind the kids: Attack of Apollyon # 19
Tim F. LaHaye
Left Behind the kids: Attack of Apollyon # 19
Tim F. LaHaye
Level 4-5 Moderate
The underground
Jerry B. Jenkins
The underground
Jerry B. Jenkins
Level 4-5 Intense
Left behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
Left behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
Level 4-5 Intense
Wildfire!
Jerry B. Jenkins
Wildfire!
Jerry B. Jenkins
Level 4-5 Intense
Heat Wave (Left Behind. the Kids)
Jerry B. Jenkins
Heat Wave (Left Behind. the Kids)
Jerry B. Jenkins
Level 5-6 Moderate
Woodlands
Lynn M. Stone
Woodlands
Lynn M. Stone
Level 3-4 Very Intense
Wild horses
Lynn M. Stone
Wild horses
Lynn M. Stone
Level 4-5 Intense
The cheetah
Philippe Dupont
The cheetah
Philippe Dupont
Level 4-5 Mild
Bats
Linda C. Wood
Bats
Linda C. Wood
Level 4-5 Intense
A Father's Promise
Donna L. Hess
A Father's Promise
Donna L. Hess
Level 5-6 Intense
Apollo 13
Michael D. Cole
Apollo 13
Michael D. Cole
Level 5-6 Intense
Challenger
Michael D. Cole
Challenger
Michael D. Cole
Level 6-7 Moderate
Cry Korea cry
Ty Pak
Cry Korea cry
Ty Pak
Level 8 Moderate
The regime
Tim F. LaHaye
The regime
Tim F. LaHaye
Level 5-6 Very Intense
Without a trace
Patricia H. Rushford
Without a trace
Patricia H. Rushford
Level 4-5 Intense
Australia
Lewis K. Parker
Australia
Lewis K. Parker
Level 4-5 Intense
Browse all 1,399 survival books
- Children of the Civil War
- Food
- The adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- White Fang
- The jungle book
- My lost and found life
- The Way People Live - Life During the Dust Bowl (The Way People Live)
- The war of the worlds
- Dust Bowl!
- The Curse of the Wendigo, an Agate And Buck Adventure (Vortex Books)
- Child survival under threat
- Julie of the Wolves
- Crossing the wire
- The white darkness
- Warrior's refuge
- Warrior's Return
- Escape from the Forest
- Night Whispers
- The Last Hope: Omen of the Stars
- Never say die
- The Blazing Star
- Path of stars
- Partials Sequence
- Her dark curiosity
- In a handful of dust
- The Capture (Prey Trilogy)
- The distance between lost and found
- The apprentice's quest
- How dare the sun rise
- Devils unto dust
- Red Hood
- A Light in the Mist
- Warriors
- How I live now
- Watership down
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The 5th Wave
- Brother in the Land
- The Children of Men
- The Road
- Wild
- She Thief
- Monument 14
- An elephant in the garden
- Maximum Ride
- Wild Robot
- The lovely bones
- A list of things that didn't kill me
- The City of Ember
- Woods Runner
- The stand
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Night of the howling dogs
- The Maze Runner
- The living
- Unbroken
- Brian's hunt
- The Castaways
- The Clay Marble
- The reader
- Flutter
- Little dog lost
- Lord of the flies
- Tulku
- Tomorrow, when the war began
- The sign of the beaver
- Legacy
- Song of the road
- What Was the Hindenburg?
- What Was the Great Depression?
- Years of dust
- My Side of the Mountain
- Sunny
- Missouri
- Australia
- Dust
- I survived the shark attacks of 1916
- The bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
- I Survived: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
- I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)
- Out of the Woods
- Prisoner B-3087
- I survived the destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7)
- Serafina's promise
- Get a Clue!.
- I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #8)
- I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived #12)
- Prisoners
- I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16)
- I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17)
- Unbound
- The Great American Dust Bowl
- The Martian
- Robinson Crusoe
- Hostage to War
- The devil's arithmetic
- The Call of the Wild
- The black stallion and Flame
- Tonight on the Titanic
- Hatchet
- The Quillan Games
- Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
- Rescue! True Life Survival Stories
- The Black Stallion
- River run
- Snakebite
- Pig City
- The Storm in the Barn
- To stay alive
- Unsinkable!
- Curiosity
- Station Eleven
- Lost and found
- The Beauty of Darkness
- After the ashes
- I survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919
- Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Hear the wolves
- The Twisted Ones
- I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20)
- I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 (I Survived #21)
- I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived #25)
- I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)
- Catching Fire
- The Adventures of SPIKER-DUDE
- The rapture
- Pirates!
- Copper sun
- Friends and Foes
- The fallen
- Survival! Desert
- Survival! Ocean
- Survival Jungle
- Unforgettable Catastrophes
- Homecoming
- Fire & ash
- Earthfall
- Shark attack!
- Zom-B
- Wool
- Boy robot
- Last star burning
- Death Valley
- I Survived the Nazi Invasion 1944
- Trapped Behind Nazi Lines
- This Is Where It Ends
- The Search for Stalor
- Tsunamis
- Black Blizzard
- Deep Freeze
- Plants vs. zombies
- I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (Graphic Novel)
- Parable of the Sower
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- Scum
- Lost girl found
- Cowboys
- Prized
- Promised
- Treasure Island
- Star wars
- Return of the Jedi
- The Dust Bowl
- Surviving the Dust Bowl
- The coral island
- Save the enemy
- What Do Critters Do in the Winter?
- Searching for Sky
- Camping
- Lost in the Antarctic
- Lost on a Mountain
- Surviving the Desert
- Surviving the Ice
- Surviving in Space
- 12 Worst Earthquakes of All Time
- 12 Worst Human-Made Disasters of All Time
- Nobody's Boy
- Terror at the Zoo
- I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Last Cuentista
- I Survived the Attacks of September 11 2001
- White Fang
- Away
- Millie and the Great Drought
- Black Sunday Dust Blizzard
- Paulina and the Disaster at Pompeii
- Scarlett Braves the Flames
- The Oregon Trail
- Just Beyond
- Mockingjay
- Stones For My Father
- The Marrow Thieves
- DAUGHTER OF THE KILLING FIELDS: ASREI'S STORY.
- Intensity (Dark-Hunters: Chronicles of Nick)
- What Are Hurricanes?
- We Are Not from Here
- The Blackbird Girls
- The Swiss family Robinson
- The Slave Dancer
- Year of Impossible Goodbyes
- The Cay
- I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster 1937
- Hatchet
- A ship is dying
- What scares you the most?
- Hit and run
- Roadside Picnic
- The stop.
- The House of 60 Fathers
- Dawn
- The secret of the Rose
- Boy in darkness
- Epidemic.
- Monster man
- Brother in the land.
- True survival stories
- Bad bad darlings
- Shattered
- The forty days.
- Reach to eternity
- The survivor
- Sweet Friday Island
- Ice drift
- The survivors
- Into the battle
- Children with cancer
- The survivor in us all
- Arctic rovings, or, The adventures of a New Bedford boy on sea and land
- Crash at Cannibal Valley (AirQuest Adventures)
- Men at Axlir
- Fires on the plain
- Earthquake
- The Vampire Prince
- The beginning
- The Charnel Prince
- Darwin's children
- Lost and found
- Robinson Crusoe: his life and strange surprising adventures
- Letting go of Bobby James, or, How I found myself of steam
- The survivor
- Wish me luck
- Orphan journey home
- Noah and the ark
- Dil dies hard
- Twister
- The globes of Llarum
- Tournament
- September 11
- The cruelest miles
- Coming back alive
- Tarzan, king of the apes
- The time of the forest
- Shingebiss : an Ojibwe legend
- A killing frost
- Hiding to Survive
- Ice story
- Panic five
- Tremor Violet
- Lost City
- The ice trail
- Phantoms
- The 'Poseidon' adventure.
- deer growing up in the wild kids want to know
- Survival in the Storm The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards Dalhart, Texas 1935
- The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds
- Tunnel vision
- Fatal Bargain
- Dark Destiny
- Storm thief
- Bravo two zero
- A teenager's journey
- Parable of the Sower
- The survivor
- Pandora's curse
- The mutineers
- Antlers of the king moose
- An instant in the wind
- Wetlands
- Alive!
- Hearts of stone
- Red Cap
- Drums along the Mohawk
- The Hunger
- Magician, master
- In solitary
- Across the sea from Galway
- Family Picture
- After the Bomb
- Beach house
- Flash Fire
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Hush Little Baby
- Bashi, elephant baby
- Remnants
- Titanic crossing
- Wanted!
- Xenocide
- Gathering blue
- Knockabeg
- Trapped on the Golden Flyer
- The sunbird
- The elephant tree
- Little brother
- Quicksilver
- The most savage animal.
- The Fan Club
- The Hermes fall
- Child abuse
- White bird
- The white ship
- The dinosaur bite
- The slow awakening
- Hugh Glass, mountain man
- Lost in the moving mountains
- The winter when time was frozen
- Rosie and Michael.
- The Great Rat Island adventure
- Scrub fire
- Arctic foxes
- January
- The night the water came
- Home in flames
- Spiders
- The death camps
- The wild blue
- Band of brothers
- Bad Girls
- The courage to heal
- Wild baby animals
- Survival
- The Great Fatherland War
- Alpine meadow
- Driven from the land
- RPM Tu Little Dino. Escapes Is (PM Story Books Turquoise Level)
- Oxygen
- The painted bird
- Slave of the Haida
- Blizzard!
- Saturday scare
- A week in the woods
- Bang!
- Walt Disney Pictures presents Dinosaur.
- Forecasting
- Dejados atrás
- El comando tribulación
- The lead soldiers
- The hideout
- The Savage Game of Lord Zarak
- The Final Kingdom
- Masada
- Mary Emma & company
- McHenry's last shoot-out
- The road to Memphis
- Nanuk
- William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Hurricanes and tornadoes
- A life wild and perilous
- Climb a lonely hill.
- Sexual abuse
- Shipwrecked on Mystery Island
- Minutes to live
- Stealing freedom
- The jungle book
- Storm warning
- Wild horses
- Yukon gold
- The cat with the yellow star
- In the ghettos
- Liberation
- Destination infinity
- Far from Cibola
- The broken bracelet
- An adventurer of the north
- Legends of a log cabin.
- The Stars My Destination
- The witches of Barguzin
- The childrenaccuse
- Fate of the artful dodger
- The earth is near.
- Glenda's long swim
- The diary of Vikenty Angarov
- Deserted
- Icequake
- Destiny's darling
- The great storm
- Trapped in devil's hole
- The sheltering sky
- Flee the wolf
- No tears in Ireland
- Pépère's fiddle
- Rough and Ready, or, Life among the New York newsboys
- Escaping into the night
- The Quillan Games
- Children of the storm
- Real kids, real adventures in Texas
- My father's world
- The year of the grizzly
- Two Badges
- The dust bowl
- Life as a POW
- Understanding Lord of the flies
- Little Elephant Thunderfoot
- Inferno
- Dike the wolf
- Redwoods
- My mother's eyes
- Scott free
- Life on a New World voyage
- Life of a soldier in Washington's army
- The war in Afghanistan
- Catastrophe in southern Asia
- Hurricane Katrina
- Australia
- Incarceration around the world
- New York
- In our midst
- Shawnee captive
- The hunger
- Quennu and the Cave Bear
- Run for Your Life
- The girl with white flag
- Operacion Rainbow I
- El Largo Invierno / The Long Winter
- Los Primeros Cuatro Anos/the First Four Years (Little House Books)
- Puente En La Selva
- On Fortune's Wheel
- Shade's children
- I know what you are
- The last of us
- In the Mouth of the Wolf
- Animals of Farthing Wood
- Elkhorn Tavern
- Fire in the Stone
- On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House)
- Wrong place, wrong time
- Dawn (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 3)
- The Long Winter (Little House)
- Swept Away
- Nation
- Hunger
- Fear
- Quest Begins
- Micro
- Illegal
- I Am Number Four
- Melting Sea
- Burn down the sky
- Neversink
- Eve
- Shards & Ashes
- Darkness Falls
- Deliverance
- Frozen
- City 1
- Mind games
- Seveneves
- The End Games
- The Murder Complex
- After the end
- Kiss kill vanish
- Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star)
- Empty City and a Hidden Enemy
- Endgame
- Endgame: Rules of the Game
- The Only
- A Pack Divided
- Survivors : the Gathering Darkness #6
- Zombie Chasers 4-Book Collection
- Obsidian and Stars
- Gamescape
- The Lost Rainforest #3
- Dread Nation
- The Traitor Prince (Ravenspire)
- Bearskin
- A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
- Blood Years
- Wind Riders #2
- Wind
- Star
- Warriors
- The Elders' Quest
- The Grizzly (Harper Trophy Books)
- A Lion to Guard Us
- The midwife's apprentice
- No way out
- The Danger Quotient
- Tortured
- Survival
- Amongst the Betrayed (Shadow Children)
- Self-Care for Kids
- Out in the wilds
- Conquering the World (Extreme Expeditions)
- Bad bad darlings
- Once
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Anna and the Swallow Man
- My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
- Between Shades of Gray
- Survivors
- The 5th wave
- Trial by Fire
- The rising
- The Prison Runner
- Castaway
- The War of the Worlds
- The Berlin raids
- MG Noah's Ark Bible Story S/C
- Jungle Bound
- Batman - Fun Pack
- Eaters of the Dead
- Disaster in the Yukon (AirQuest Adventures)
- Devastation Class
- Abel's Island
- The hunger games companion
- The Final Warning
- The kiss
- Inside Seal Team Six
- Idols
- Sword art online
- Baby doll
- Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad
- Hawk
- Beast
- Teaching the selected works of Gary Paulsen
- The Journal of Watkin Stench
- Homebird
- Malka (Young Picador)
- Malka
- World War II
- Crocodile River
- FULL THROTTLE #3 (Turbo Cowboys, No 3)
- The problem with forever
- Deep Water
- Terror at Bottle Creek
- Where Only Storms Grow
- Upon the head of the goat
- Big black horse
- The black stallion
- The prince who fell from the sky
- Fire on the wind
- Star-Crossed
- Wild in the World
- The Call of the Wild and Other Stories (Silver Classics)
- Transall Saga
- Boy Soldier
- Brian's Winter
- The story of Cirrus Flux
- All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
- The Kill Order
- Firefight
- Like water on stone
- Old Yeller
- Dar and the Spear Thrower
- Resolution
- Minecraft : the Shipwreck
- Chasing the bear
- Halt's Peril
- Nyxia Unleashed
- How I Became a Spy
- No promises in the wind
- Robinson Crusoe (Classics Illustrated)
- Tornado
- The Runaways
- The Hunger Games
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
- Wilderness
- Brian's return
- Vacation Survival Kit
- My Life in Dog Years and Woodsong
- Shakespeare's scribe
- Through the lock
- Green Angel
- Tree Castle Island
- The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow
- Marika
- Robinson Crusoe
- Brian's winter
- Exploding Ants
- Brian's Hunt
- The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
- Surviving Sharks and Other Dangerous Creatures
- The Cats in Krasinski Square
- Guardians of Ga'hoole
- The Other Side of Dawn
- Woeful Second World War
- Life as We Knew it
- Survie
- The Mayflower Project (Remnants, #01)
- Destination Unknown (Remnants)
- The Baboon King (Readers Circle)
- Monkey Island
- Jacob's rescue
- The Road to Home
- Voyage of Ice (Chronicles of Courage (Yearling))
- Runt
- Into the Firestorm
- The Haymeadow
- Wounded Knee
- Mama
- Dust
- Parable of the Talents
- Robinson Crusoe Gb
- Suth's story
- Survival
- Hero at the Fall
- Stormbreak
- The Swiss family Robinson
- Four girls from Berlin
- Forces of Nature, Wildfires
- Throw me a smile
- The adventures of Whitefoot the woodmouse
- Survival at Valley Forge
- Coyote Rings Wrong Bell/Cassette
- Natural Disasters (High Interest Books)
- Deadfall
- Ghost Front
- Whiteout
- Which Way Is Home?
- Burn Our Bodies Down
- Stormblown
- Pernix
- Earthquake terror
- Dangerous Crossings (The Restless Sea)
- The Call of the Wild And Selected Short Stories (Scholastic Classics)
- Avalanche!
- Voyage on the Great Titanic (Dear America)
- El Dr Manaco Contra Robby Schwartz
- Mr. Tucket
- Jungle of Bones
- Strays
- Among the Impostors
- Blizzard of glass
- Stay Alive: Cave-In
- Prisoners of War
- Mountain of bones
- I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (I Survived #13)
- Wild Blood
- The quest of the cubs
- Switch
- Into the Killing Seas
- Zane and The Hurricane: A story of Katrina
- Nature Attacks! (I Survived True Stories #2)
- Into the Hurricane
- Prisoner of war
- I Survived: True Stories
- Lost in Outer Space
- I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
- Sign of the Beaver
- Marooned
- People of Sparks
- Blitzed
- Desert Dog
- SURVIVAL AT SEA(CYOA
- Lost in the Barrens
- Lost at sea.
- The Cay (Career Planning Guide)
- The Hunt
- Brian's hunt
- Magic tree house survival guide
- Blue Mars
- day in the life Of #*@%$
- Doctor Who
- Web
- Robinson Crusoe (1357)
- Iceberg Hermit (Accelerated Readers (Paperback))
- Birth of an Island
- When Winter Comes
- When Winter Comes
- King of the Grizzlies
- Winter camp
- Hiroshima
- The summer I was lost
- Lisa's war
- The Upstairs Room
- left by themselves
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Earthquake Terror
- Mad Gadget
- Scatterlings
- The Snow Child
- Maude and Claude Go Abroad
- Fire (Med Center)
- Remnants
- Weekend at Poison Lake
- Sunset Route
- Project Hail Mary
- Sun Keep Rising
- Defiant
- Clarice the Brave
- Notorious Scarlett and Browne
- Pursuit Up North
- The Sorcerer
- The Call of Sagarmatha
- The Dragonhorse
- The Delicate Pioneer
- Adrift
- The Girl in the Well
- Witnesses to War
- Set Me Free
- Blood Red Road
- Jubela
- Flash Fire
- Shootout at Joe's
- The Bear That Heard Crying
- Poppy
- Child of the Wolves
- Free Fall
- Rogue Wave and Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories
- Home Is the North
- Amelina Carrett
- Read for Your Life
- Baby Whale Rescue
- Bushwhackers
- Stealing Freedom
- Ice Wreck (Stepping Stone Chapter Books)
- Destination Unknown (Remnants, #02)
- Them (Remnants, #03)
- Leopard Family Book (Animal Family (Chronicle))
- Buffalo Tree
- Ogs Discover Fire
- Pioneer Children Of Appalachia
- Indians of the Northeast Woodlands
- Left Behind
- Gambler's Daughter
- Weet Alone
- Discovering the Arctic
- Billy and the Bearman
- Aliens
- Danger
- I'll Know What to Do
- Born to Fly
- Alone in the Wilderness (Native American (Paperback))
- River Book for Kids
- Adventure in the Bear Tooth Mountains
- Survivors
- Terry and the South Pole breakdown
- Crash on Glacier Peak (The Stark Files)
- Quiet Game
- Noike
- Pup
- Fight for pow3r
- Ordeal by Mountain
- Buried alive
- War News
- Code-Name Downfall
- Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began
- Trapped in the Slickrock Canyon
- The baby and Fly Pie
- The Christmas Rat (Aladdin Fantasy)
- Among the Impostors
- Fever 1793
- Among the Brave
- Worst Class Trip Ever (Castaways)
- The Upstairs Room
- On Board the Titanic (new Edition)
- The Associated Press Library of Disasters
- The Associated Press Library of Disasters
- Only the Heart
- Mountain Wolf
- Access to the Universe (Takeaways)
- The readymade thief
- Predators in the Wild
- Disaster in the Mountains!
- Jump the Cracks
- The Seeker
- Spirit Camp
- Don't Look Back
- The Secret of Table Rock
- The Secret of Table Rock
- Touch of an Angel
- Touch of an Angel
- A Child called "it" and The lost boy
- Prey
- Overcoming the Odds
- Nature on the Rampage
- Disaster!
- The Mouse Butcher (Lythway Large Print Children's Series)
- Clever Polly and the stupid wolf
- The Borrowers Afield (Borrowers)
- Fleabag and the Ring Fire
- Tales of Real Adventure
- Prison Ship
- Ring-rise, Ring-set
- The wreck of the Zanzibar
- Outdoor survival guide
- Escape
- Peril in the Mist
- The lost soul
- The Great Fatherland War
- Everest
- Shot down
- Plague riders
- Fight the wind
- Living on the Edge
- RPM or Pterosaurs Lg Flight Is (PM Story Books)
- Pagan's Scribe
- Requiem
- MARTians
- The Garbage King
- Earthseed
- 1609: Winter of the Dead
- Strange Exit
- Fukushima nuclear disaster
- Life on an Island
- X-Men: The End Book Two
- Death Walk (Walt Morey Adventure Library)
- Finding the Titanic
- Long Journey (Dinosaur)
- Jacob's Rescue
- The Car
- Teetoncey
- Three Young Pilgrims
- The Quiet Room
- Milkweed
- The Book of the Sword
- Climb or die
- Under a war-torn sky
- Tarzan (Junior Novel Series)
- Z for Zachariah [Unabridged] [Audiobook]
- The Wreckers
- Lucy
- The Titanic (Great Disasters and Their Reforms)
- The Apollo 13 misson
- The G.I.
- Great Disasters Set
- Stalingrad
- Survival! (On the Edge)
- Disney Pirates of the Caribbean Storybook and Compass Viewer: At World's End (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)
- The Holocaust
- Lost Boy
- Survivors of childhood cancer
- Hunt for Fang
- Stung
- Trapped by the Ice!
- The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg
- Hurricanes and tornadoes
- We're alive and life goes on
- Pol Pot
- Buddy Hawk
- Twenty and Ten
- Elfquest
- Elfquest
- Elfquest Journey to Sorrow's End (Elfquest)
- Johnny Got His Gun
- Giants in the Earth
- Slake's Limbo
- Sarah Bishop (Point)
- The Bachman Books
- A Fire upon the Deep
- Crash in the Wilderness
- Ice on Fire (Portrait of the Soviet Union)
- American Indian Story
- Prairie Dogs (Animal Prey)
- Fire-Hunter
- The crimson cap
- A Dog on His Own
- Thirteen
- Little Monarchs
- Drugs on Your Streets (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)
- Hannah's Flood
- Scrub Dog of Alaska
- Weasel
- Do or Die
- The Cheetah (Animal Close-Ups)
- The Hockey Machine (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)
- The River
- Natural Disasters
- Disasters
- Rite of passage
- Black Stallion Prebind Set (Favorite Characters, Grades 4-6)
- The Story of the Selvino Children
- Rot and Ruin
- Bromeliad
- The Arctic land
- The Guernica generation
- PALS provider manual
- Ski camping
- Steffie can't come out to play
- Strangers in Black
- Trouble River
- The Sea Wolf (Bantam Classics)
- Improve Your Survival Skills
- Mysterious Island
- The Saver
- The Tinderbox
- Fox Tale
- Acute renal disorders and renal emergencies
- Captain Noah
- The Valley Of Tantalika. An African Wild Life Story (Southern Africa Political Economy Series, 1)
- Survival at Valley Forge
- Boris
- Earthwatch
- Billy and the Bearman
- History of the Thirteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry U.S.A.
- No Easy Way Out
- Deep Trouble (Walter Morey Adventure Library)
- Lone Woman of Ghalas Hat
- 1000 : 1 Odds
- To Build a Fire
- Incident at Cat Island
- The Lost Childhood
- The Legend of Red Leaf
- Because of Romek
- Tango in America (Y)
- Zan-Gah
- My Tornado Story
- Salvation
- Fire birds
- Angel of the Prairie
- Branded
- Moon tears
- White Fang
- Kidnapped
- Badwater 135
- Robots
- Raft
- Found
- Found
- Found
- True Rescue : The Finest Hours
- Dance of thieves
- Vow of Thieves
- Blood Mountain
- Scary Stories for Young Foxes
- Little Thieves
- Girl Who Sang
- Race to the Bottom of the Earth
- Greed
- These Deadly Games
- Flicker
- Chasers
- Time Bomb
- Talent for Trouble
- Outbreak
- The traitor's game
- Scar Island
- Grand Escape
- Maiden voyage
- A warp in time
- Missing (Shadow House, Book 4)
- Flooded
- Impostors
- Distress Signal
- Buried
- Evacuation Order
- Artifice
- Backcountry
- I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)
- Flight of shadows
- DragonFire
- Pride of Baghdad
- The Swiss Family Robinson (Unabridged Classics)
- The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics)
- Even Heroes Cry
- The Camp System (Holocaust (Chicago, Ill.).)
- Survive
- A Long Way Gone
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Military survival
- The dead and the gone
- Raiders And Ruins
- The Fall Of The Blade
- Life As We Knew It
- Traitors
- HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY boxed set
- Rebel Heart
- Lost ... in the Desert of Dread
- Beast Quest: Scalamanx the Fiery Fury: Special 23
- Beast Quest: Jurog, Hammer of the Jungle: Series 22 Book 3
- Not If I Save You First
- Explorer
- World of the Stiks
- Between shades of gray
- Surviving disasters
- Avoiding hunger and finding water
- Hurricane Katrina Brought Angels Too!
- Project
- Littlenose the hunter
- Trapped
- Silverwing
- Z for Zachariah
- Living Dead Girl
- Tiger
- The War of the Worlds
- Tsunami Sue
- Klickitat
- Poptropica
- Hunting by Stars
- The drifting classroom.
- On board the Titanic
- Shadowlands (Shadowlands #1)
- Midnight thief
- Till the Train Runs Out of Track
- Scratch
- The adventurous life of Myles Standish and the amazing-but-true survival story of the Plymouth Colony
- Stranded!
- The attack on Pearl Harbor
- Animal camouflage in the forest
- Is It Night or Day?
- In the Path of Falling Objects
- Stick
- Skyhunter
- Hiding in mountains
- American Indians in Texas
- The Country Beyond (Large Print Edition)
- Blackfeet
- Kings of Colorado
- Thunder
- Dust & decay
- Dark inside
- Blood red road
- Among the Betrayed
- Ghost Hawk
- Hidden
- Fifteen rabbits
- Titanic
- Titanic
- The Unwind Collection
- Underground Soldier
- I Survived Collection
- The Zom-B chronicles
- Zoid
- From Raggs to Riches
- Amba
- Bug Island
- Collins Big Cat - The Jungle Book
- Red Wolf
- Breaking Point
- Immortal Rules
- The 2012 Prophecies
- Comanche Chief Quanah Parker
- Rains
- Surviving Accidents and Crashes
- The way back from broken
- Climate migrants
- Fire and Ash
- Scars Like Wings
- Clockwise to Titan
- Breakdown
- Independent study
- Young Victims of the Nazi Regime
- Caves : Lizard
- The caves
- Ringer
- Survival
- End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days)
- The harvest
- Stillhouse Lake
- Project ELE
- Savage Lands
- Earthquake, San Francisco, 1906
- Explorer
- How We Became Wicked
- Ruthless
- Survivors Collection
- Finest Kind
- Hunger
- Cold Falling White
- Feral youth
- Surviving the River
- Surviving the Rainforest
- Surviving the Mountain
- Flood
- Inventor's Secret
- Tornado
- Bad call
- The ninth child
- Can You Survive an Alien Invasion?
- Fight for Survival
- Hunger Winter
- Lucy Fights the Flames
- Arena of Monsters
- Make It Out Alive on a Desert Island
- Eyewitness to the Sinking of the Lusitania
- Volcano Survival Stories
- In the Palace of the Khans
- Finding water in the wild
- Arctic Foxes Pounce, Lemmings Burrow
- Death in the Donner Party
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Wall of Water
- Deep Freeze
- Aftershock
- Black Blizzard
- Safe Zone
- Surviving Mount Everest
- You Choose
- I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910
- A slippery land
- What the night sings
- Duel at Araluen
- Zombie Apocalypse Running Club
- I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
- Saltwater Crocodiles
- How to Survive a Blizzard
- Juliane Koepcke
- Lost in Space Hacks
- Nuclear Explosion Hacks
- Zombie Apocalypse Hacks
- Trail of lightning
- Alone
- Red Ribbon
- The Starlight Claim
- Haven
- Haven
- Starlight Claim
- Making Bombs for Hitler
- I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Graphic Novel)
- Lava Chase
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
- Surviving a Vampire Invasion
- Devastating Storms
- Washed Away by Floods
- World War II Escapes and Rescues
- Take Shelter
- Spinning Out
- Rescued!
- Survival Facts or Fibs
- Unbreakable Zamperini
- Sunrise on the Reaping
- Rider's Reign
- Perilous Passage
- Three Million Acres of Flame
- Hunter in the Dark
- The Dirt Eaters (The Longlight Legacy)
- Gold Rush Fever
- Red sea
- The Burning Time
- Flames of the tiger
- The Plague (Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles)
- Judgment, The (Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles)
- Kathy's Story
- War Brothers
- War Brothers
- Prison boy
- Hunger Journeys
- Juggling fire
- When I kill you
- The Golden Circle
- Cynthia
- The Upstairs Room
- War in the Gulf
- Call of the Wild (Saddleback Classics)
- Liberation
- The Wind Is Not a River
- Billy Beaver (Sargent, Dave, Animal Pride Series, 2.)
- Dike the Wolf
- Ultimate Game
- Lucas
- 6,000,000 stars
- Along the Luangwa
- To Kill the Truth
- After the kill
- Tarzan the Untamed
- Run to Freedom
- Yummy (Lemonade Collection)
- The Dark Portal
- Dog Woman
- Kazan.
- Voices of the dust bowl
- Wilder and Sunny
- Escapes from natural disasters
- Warriors in the crossfire
- Feather
- Chase
- Beirut Middle School
- Street Angel
- Shark wars
- The children of the lost
- Saving Children from the Holocaust
- Richard of Jamestown, A Story of the Virginia Colony (Yesterday's Classics)
- Runaways
- Runaways
- Kidnapped!
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Battle Fleet
- SURFACING
- The Swiss Family Robinson Tale #1 Shipwrecked! (Short Tales Classics)
- The Jamestown Colony
- Pearl Harbor
- Underwater
- China
- Maze Runner : The Scorch Trials
- Man-eater
- Grizzly Trap
- The Desert Challenge
- Volcano Challenge
- Everest
- The 2013 Oklahoma City tornadoes
- The stone heart
- Amidst the Shadows of Trees
- Chased by Death
- Stranded in a snowstorm
- Diario de Greg 13
- How to Survive an Animal Attack
- How to Survive a Tsunami
- California Wildfires Survival Stories
- Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Survival Stories
- No Sign of Land!
- Six Days Alone!
- Honey Jar
- Mèo and Bé
- Golden Like Summer
- Survivor
- The Teacher of Nomad Land
- Flattened by an Earthquake!
- Inside the Volcano
- Moldy Orange Bandage
- Four for the Road
- Out of Range
- Mysterious Island
- Halo
- Escape from a Death Roll
- Missing on Malridge Mountain
- Surviving a Shipwreck at Sea
- Earthquake!
- Survivors of the Chancellor
- Sick Soil
- Kidnapped
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Four Found Dead
- What She Found in the Woods
- Most Spectacular Traveling Box
- Unbearable
- And They Found Dragons
- Devil's Island
- Incurable
- When courage came to call
- Battle Order 204
- Bite of the mango
- Pandora Jones: Admission
- Day the Bridge Fell
- Girl with No Name
- No refuge for women
- Her Benny
- The masque of the red death
- If You Find Me
- Island
- The Norway Room
- Peril in the Snow
- Running on the Cracks
- The book of Aron
- So over This
- Long Walk to Water
- Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
- Jungle Book
- Lower Depths
- Island of the Lizard King
- Road of Lost Innocence
- Little Survivors
- A Curious Clownfish
- Sniper
- Love and Tears
- Quillan Games
- Attack Warning Red
- The Swiss Family Robinson (Wordsworth Collection Children's Library) (Wordsworth Collection Children's Library)
- Stalky & Co.
- Alpha Force
- Alpha Force
- Survival skills
- Beslan
- To die for
- Escape to Les Vignes
- Ghost of the Chicken Coop Theater
- Sisu
- Little Chicago
- Chomp!
- Bug (The Adventures of Bug and Frogger Series)
- Running Hot
- Weight of Freedom
- Hiding out
- The Boss
- Parallel Lines
- The Lost chronicles
- Be a survivor
- Pip and the Bamboo Path
- The words to remember it
- Voicing the Dead
- Every superman needs a dad
- Quimble Wood
- Tonight On The Titanic
- Under the waves
- Children in Reindeer Woods
- Pink sky at night
- The Bloomswell Diaries
- Dust Storm
- Long Run
- Stephanie's Anguish
- Out of the Wilderness
- Names We Take
- Fever, a Flight, and a Fight for the World
- YEMI Visited the Kingdom
- Kidnapping in Kentucky 1776
- The Time of the Dinosaurs
- Seven Stones
- Snake (the Five Ancestors, Book 3)
- Max Random and the Zombie 500
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Balada de pájaros cantores y serpientes
- En llamas
- Sinsajo
- Nubes negras
- El gorila
- Huellas peligrosas
- Claro de luna
- My Nitra
- The Hostage
- The Igloo
- The Pilgrims of Plymouth (Hra330)
- The Holocaust
- Which Way Freedom
- A Penguin Year
- Black Star, Bright Dawn
- The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- Ishi, Last of His Tribe
- A Boat to Nowhere
- The Maldonado Miracle
- The Prince of Whales
- Survival
- Jungle Books
- Captives of Time
- Black-Footed Ferret (Smithsonian Young Wild Heritage Collection)
- Larry the Ranch Dog
- Day Before Thanksgiving
- Amanecer en la Cosecha / Sunrise on the Reaping
- Chogan and the Gray Wolf
- Talking to Dolphins
- The Innocent Rebel
- The River
- Ground Zero
- The Death Cure
- Brian's Return
- The Scorch Trials
- Refugee
- Escaping Peril
Questions parents ask about survival books
- What are the best survival books for kids?
- HootRated catalogs 1,399 survival children's books spanning picture books through Grade 11. Each is rated on two dimensions: reading level (text difficulty) and content intensity (emotional weight). The featured picks above are sorted by quality signals — hook factor, discussion potential, and parent-vetted content appropriateness.
- Are survival books appropriate for sensitive readers?
- 425 of our 1,399 survival books are rated Gentle or Mild — appropriate for sensitive readers. 261 are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity across this theme is 2.9/5. Filter by intensity badge color (green = gentle, red = intense) to match your child's emotional readiness.
- What's the difference between reading level and content intensity?
- Reading level measures text difficulty. Content intensity measures emotional weight. A child can read several grade levels above their age but not yet be ready for high-intensity content — what we call the Gifted Kid Paradox. For survival specifically, the typical reading level lands around Grade 5.