Fleming Community Library

"Rena Matthews feels called to take the Gospel to the South Seas. She and her team of highly educated and wealthy volunteers plan to show the world how to spread the Gospel in the most scientific manner. When rough-hewn Travis Winslow volunteers, Rena wants to refuse him, but her father insists she take him along. They set out in her father's yacht, but a storm drives them hundreds of miles off course and into a reef on a deserted island. Much to...

In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.

When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.

When Radley returns to the U.S. after having volunteered abroad, she discovers a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.

An account of the sinking, in Sept. 1857, of the SS Central America, a sidewheel steamer carrying 600 passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, and the efforts in the 1980s of Tommy Thompson to penetrate the deep-ocean floor and recover her treasures: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust plus trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, journals and much more.

Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with...

Dunc and Amos try hang gliding and crash in the wilderness. Things go from bad to worse when a wild man holds them captive. Can anything save them?