Adventure

 //**Beauty Queens **// The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. This is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
 * by Libba Bray **

//**Jump **// Jump. That is what P.K. has done. A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure -- rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything’s amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite but they seem awesomely made for one another. P.K. is in heaven. And then the cops show up. . . with an arrest warrant. And P.K. has to decide who to believe.
 * by Elisa Carbone **

When Uncle Victor whisks Sym away to Paris, she is delighted. He's been so kind and attentive, preparing her a special diet, teaching her all about advanced science and the Antarctic, and taking good care of her and Mum ever since her father died. When the short jaunt turns into a surprise trip to Antarctica, Sym is even more thrilled at the chance to visit the final resting place of her secret confidant, the doomed polar explorer Titus Oates. But the trip soon becomes a struggle against a deadly wilderness and a lunatic's ambitions.
 * //The White Darkness //**
 * by Geraldine McCaughrean **

Mau is canoeing alone when he gets caught in a giant wave that also hits his home island. He survives to discover that his entire village has been destroyed and everyone killed. Ermintrude is traveling to see her father, heir to the throne of England, when the wave deposits her ship on Mau's island; like Mau, she is the sole survivor. The pair must not only learn to understand each other and survive together, they must also make sense of the mysterious, insistent voices of Mau's ancestors, which hold powerful secrets about the island's past.
 * //Nation //**
 * by Terry Pratchett **