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List of Wilderness Books for Kids

Book	Author
A Girl Named Disaster	Nancy Farmer
Abel's Island	William Steig
Call of the Wild	Jack London
Gentle Ben	Walt Morey
Hatchet Series	Gary Paulsen
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell
Kavik the Wolf Dog	Walt Morey
Little House Series	Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George
Save Queen of Sheba	Louise Moeri
Sign of the Beaver	Elizabeth George Speare
Slake's Limbo	Felice Holman
Snow Dog	Jim Kjelgaard
Stone Fox	John Reynolds Gardiner
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi
The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman
Week in the Woods	Andrew Clements
White Fang	Jack London
Wild Trek	Jim Kjelgaard
Z for Zachariah	Robert O'Brien

Oh the great outdoors! Do you like to camp? Read stories of "roughing it?" Then there is a book on this list for you. The Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen is probably the most well known on this list. The four books in this series tell the story of Brian Robeson who survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and what he has to do to survive. It is interesting to learn what Brian has to eat, how he learns to make fire, and also to make shelter. Brian's Winter is a sequel or alternate ending book to Hatchet. In the original Hatchet, spoiler alert - Brian gets home. In Brian's Winter, Paulsen explores what would have happened if he had not made it home.

The Little House on the Prairie Series is a great wilderness series for girls and boys alike. Even though the main character is a girl named Laura, a lot of the story tells of the challenges the settlers faced as they went west. It makes me appreciate the everyday luxuries we have today! I don't think I would have enjoyed being a pioneer, but of course I would not have known about air-conditioning and indoor plumbing!

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