Books like The captive by Scott O'Dell

In 1943 Copenhagen, ten‑year‑old Annemarie Johansen helps her Jewish friend Ellen Rosen escape Nazi persecution, learning courage and resilience while navigating war‑time hardships.

A solitary Chumash girl is left on San Nicolas Island and must learn to survive alone, mastering skills traditionally reserved for men while facing danger, hunger and loneliness.

A powerful story of a Black family's battle for dignity, family, and land in Depression‑era Mississippi, seen through the eyes of eight‑year‑old Cassie Logan.

Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga

Set in a Tory town during the American Revolutionary War, the novel follows the Meeker family as one son joins the rebels while the rest try to remain neutral, uncovering the cost of loyalty and family ties.

A young Hebrew boy, Daniel, vows revenge against the Roman occupiers after his father’s crucifixion, but his journey toward vengeance is transformed as he encounters the teachings of Jesus and learns forgiveness.

Caddie Woodlawn, a Newbery‑Medal‑winning historical novel by Carol Ryrie Brink, follows a spirited Wisconsin farm girl as she navigates frontier life, family bonds, and friendships in 19th‑century America.

In the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a young girl named Billie Jo faces a life‑altering accident and the relentless storms that threaten her Oklahoma farm, finding resilience through poetry and the music she can no longer play.

Twelve-year-old Mary Jemison is captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, rescued, and adopted by two Seneca sisters—a historical story of Indian captivity and frontier life.

During the eighteenth century in Maine, a young boy is left alone to guard his family's wilderness home and must learn survival skills from local Indians before anyone else arrives.

Orphaned Kit Tyler arrives in Connecticut Colony and finds freedom only in the company of the Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, but when their friendship is discovered, Kit faces mistrust and witchcraft accusations.

Isobel is kidnapped by the Comanche after a raid and becomes the bride of the fierce chieftain Stands Alone, their turbulent relationship blurs the line between captor and loved one in this frontier romance.

Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy, must overcome his cultural differences and learn to be a man.

Spanish seminary student Julián Escobar, revered by the Maya as Lord Kukulcán, watches the collapse of the Mayan and Incan empires during the campaigns of Cortés and Pizarro.

A Spanish seminarian thought to be the Maya god Kukulkan becomes a witness to Hernán Cortés’s arrival and the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán.

While on an archaeological dig in central Mexico, Ricky, Old Lady Bugsby, and the Jamesville gang investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Mayan girl's father.

A tale of love, redemption, and survival in the New World as a British girl falls in love with a Lenape warrior and must choose between freedom and the one she cannot escape from.

In this heartbreaking and shocking expose, one of Dynasty's biggest stars lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her in this powerful depiction of a mother's love and determination. "I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone." In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her twenty-year-old daughter was on the threshold of building a new company and they both thought this program might help her achieve her dream. But quickly, Catherine saw a sinister side to what appeared to be a self-help organization designed to help its clients become the best versions of themselves. Catherine watched in horror as her daughter fell further and further down the rabbit hole, becoming brainwashed by the organization's charismatic leader. Despite Catherine's best efforts, India was drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining a secret, elite "sorority" of women members who are ordered to maintain a restricted diet, recruit other women as "slaves," and are branded with their leader's initials. In Captive, Catherine shares every parent's worst nightmare, and the lengths that a mother will go to save her child. Featuring interviews with past members of NXIVM and experts in the field of cults, Oxenberg attempts to draw back the curtain on how these groups continue to lure in members. She relates her continuing journey to try to reach her daughter, to save her from what she believes is a dangerous, mind-controlling cult.

A Japanese town's tsunami brings devastation and survival stories in Margaret Hodges' imaginative tale for young adults and children alike.

A Southern woman’s romance in 19th‑century Florida with a stunning half‑Indian man turns perilous as the Indian Wars ignite their destiny.

Maya princess Green Jay of Bacal chronicles her perilous journey to Xukpip to meet her future husband, King Fire Keeper, in a vivid diary set in 8th-century Mexico.

Joe, Fred, and Sam are whisked by a mystical book to the main ring-ball court of Chichin Itza in 1000 A.D., where they must compete for their lives against a cheating Mayan high priest.