Horizon (Scholastic)

When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.

Molly and her friend survived a deadly plane crash, only to find themselves trapped in an otherworldly landscape filled with unnatural dangers. Still reeling from their recent losses, the survivors emerge into an eerie blue forest, where they make a startling discovery. Humans-real, live humans-are living in the woods. Like Molly and the others, these young musicians crashed in the Arctic and have been hoping for rescue. At first, both groups seem...

The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the truth...