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Andrea Warren
This is a historical account centred on Jack’s testimony, alongside photographs and context about the Holocaust. It follows his imprisonment, efforts to survive, liberation and search for family.
Nawuth Keat
This is a first-person account of a child’s survival under Khmer Rouge rule, including the loss of family and the struggle to escape. It also aims to bear witness to what happened.
Cox, Barbara G.
This is a chapter-based tour of nine wild-dog species, combining animal behaviour, habitats and survival with coloured photographs. It ranges from coyotes in cities to bush dogs, dholes, dingoes, jackals and singing dogs.
Laurie Halse Anderson
This memoir offers a candid account of surviving sexual assault, rebuilding a voice and turning lived experience into writing, while widening the focus to consent, rape culture and other survivors’ stories.
Shaunta Grimes
Expect a high-stakes resistance story centred on loyalty, oppression and difficult choices. Its speculative world includes a plague’s aftermath, time-travelling operatives and a society controlled through medicine, walls and surveillance.
Peter Lantos
A child’s-eye memoir about displacement, family love and survival, moving from wartime adventure-like discoveries towards the realities of bombing, Bergen-Belsen, starvation, illness and bereavement.
Gregory Mone
This is a historical adventure with a young working protagonist, a rare-book mystery and an approaching maritime disaster. Expect disguises, schemes, sensory detail and a quickening plot rather than a purely factual Titanic account.
Laura Hillman
A first-person Holocaust memoir centred on a young woman’s choices, imprisonment, separation from family, relationship with Dick, and eventual survival. Its account connects private courage and hope with systematic Nazi persecution.
Ruth Minsky Sender
This is a personal Holocaust memoir centred on Riva’s separation from her family, imprisonment and determination to survive. It presents endurance alongside persecution, bereavement and occasional kindness.
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