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Wild Bird
Contributor(s): Van Draanen, Wendelin (Author)
ISBN: 1101940476     ISBN-13: 9781101940471
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
OUR PRICE:   $9.89  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 680
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Catalog Heading - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary
- Curriculum Strand - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 191834
Reading Level: 4.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 10.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp.

3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents don't know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.

The Wren who arrives in the Utah desert is angry and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can't put up a tent. And bitter won't start a fire. Wren's going to have to admit she needs help if she's going to survive.

I read Wild Bird in one long, mesmerized gulp. Wren will break your heart--and then mend it. --Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist for The Rules of Survival

Van Draanen's Wren is real and relatable, and readers will root for her. --VOYA, starred review