WILDMAN/WILDWOMAN

B GUTHRIE

Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me. New York: Viking, [2002].

Note: Against a backdrop of the Depression, the Dust-Bowl migration, farm workers' camps in California, World War II, and the Cold War era, readers are introduced to the whirlwind of creative, nervous energy and often-erratic behavior that characterized Guthrie. Although he was hospitalized with Huntington's Disease by the time of the 1960s' folk-music boom, young singers including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Odetta led a new generation to love his music.

599.744 MOW

Mowat, Farley. Never Cry Wolf. [1st American ed.]. Boston: Little, Brown,

[1963].

Note: More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut ("People of the Deer")-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves.

639 Mur

Murphy, Jim. Gone A-Whaling: the Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale. New York: Clarion, [1998].

Note: Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.

796.522 BOU

The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest. New York: St. Martins, [1997].

Note: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead, or stranded on the frigid mountain. Anatoli Boukreev, head climbing guide for the Mountain Madness expedition, stepped into the heart of the storm and brought three of his clients down alive. Here is his amazing story-of an expedition fated for disaster, of the blind ambition that drives people to attempt such dangerous ventures, and of a modern-day hero, who risked his own life to save others.

910.4 LAR

Larranaga, Robert D. Pirates and Buccaneers. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications

Co, [1970].

Note: Recounts the exploits of nine pirates and buccaneers who sailed and

plundered on the seas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

917.804 Sch

Schmidt, Thomas and Schmidt, Jeremy. The Saga of Lewis and Clark : Into the

Uncharted West. 1st American ed. New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley, [1999].

Note: A detailed narrative, rich indetails and pictures outlining the journey of

Lewis and Clark.

919.8 KOS

Kostyal, K.M. Trial By Ice : a Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, [1999].

Note: "Traces the adventurous life of the South Pole explorer whose ship, the

Endurance, was frozen in ice and crushed, leaving the captain and crew to

fight for survival."

919.89 ARM

Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary

true story of Shackleton and the Endurance. 1st ed. New York: Crown, [1998].

Note: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when,

after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance,

was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and

perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

919.8904 ALE

Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic

Expedition. New York: Knopf, [1998].

Note: In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack.

999 LAN

Lansing, Alfred. Endurance; Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. [1st ed.]. New York:

McGraw-Hill, [1959].

Note: In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance - just a day's sail short of its destination - became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history.

B Pfe pbk.

Pfetzer, Mark. Within Reach: My Everest Story. New York: Puffin, [2000].

Note: Pfetzer, 18 at the time of publication, describes his summits of a number of peaks worthy of a climber twice his age, including Huascarán, Aconcagua, Ama Dablam, Kilimanjaro, and Cho Oyu. He tells at length of his two expeditions to Everest, where he reached 25,000 feet from Tibet and 26,000 feet from Nepal.

B MOWAT

Mowat, Farley. Born Naked. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1994].

Note: In the summer of 1933 Angus Mowat, a soldier, sailor, beekeeper, and librarian, packed his family into a homemade camper dubbed the "Ark" and set off from Windsor, Ontario, to Saskatoon. For twelve-year-old Farley the trip through the prairie, with its teeming wildlife and big-sky beauty, would have a lasting effect on his life, giving birth to his love of the outdoors.

B LONDON

Dyer, Daniel. Jack London : a Biography. 1st American ed. New York: Scholastic

Press, [1997].

Note: Biography of the colorful American writer who had been an oyster pirate, a

seal hunter, a mill worker, a hobo, and a political activist before becoming

a popular author at the age of twenty-nine.

Fic ALL

Allende, Isabel. Forest of the Pygmies. New York: HarperCollins, [2005].

Note: Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.

Fic AVI

Avi. The Man Who Was Poe. New York: Avon Books, [1991, 1989].

Note: In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the

problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously

disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final

twist.

Fic COLLIER

Collier, Kristi. Jericho Walls. New York: Henry Holt, [2002].

Note: In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her to confront racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.

Fic Cus

Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy. New York: Clarion, [1994].

Note: The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

Fic COTTONWOOD

Cottonwood, Joe. Danny Ain't. New York: Scholastic, [1992].

Note: With the help of some unusual characters in a small California town, Danny

struggles to live on his own while his father, a Vietnam veteran, is in the

VA hospital.

Fic CUS

Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice. New York: Clarion Books, [1995]/

Note: In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

Fic Deuker

Deuker, Carl. On the Devil’s Court. Boston: Joy Street Books, [1988].

Note: Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball.

Fic Fine

Fine, Anne. The Tulip Touch: a Novel. Boston: Little and Brown, [1997].

Note: Natalie, who lives in the large hotel managed by her father, has a dangerous friendship with Tulip, the wildly uncontrollable girl on a neighboring farm.

Fic Hen

Heneghan, James. The Grave. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2000].

Note: Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.

Fic Hob

Hobbs, Will. Far North. New York: Morrow Junior Books, [1996].

Note: After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his

Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the

Northwest Territories.

Fic HOB

Hobbs, Will. Jason's Gold. New York, NY: HarperCollins, [1999].

Note: Fifteen-year-old Jason first hears about the discovery of gold in the Klondike while working as a paperboy in New York. He quickly rushes to Seattle to meet up with his brothers, only to find that they have left for the Yukon without him. As he goes the trip alone, adventures pile up.

Fic LYONS

Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War Scrapbook of Union Spies. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2000].

Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.

Fic Lyn

Lynch, Chris. Iceman. New York: HarperCollins, [1994].

Note: Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.

Fic McD

McDonald, Joyce. Swallowing Stones. New York: Delacourt, [1997].

Note: Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.

Fic McK

McKinley, Robin. Spindle’s End. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2000].

Note: The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.

Fic Morressy

Morressy, John. The Juggler. New York: Holt, [1996].

Note: In medieval England, Beran must decide whether to sell his soul to the Devil to become the world's greatest juggler.

Fic PAULSEN

Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Return. New York: Delacorte Press, [1999].

Note: After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no

longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really

belongs.

Fic PAULSEN

Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Winter. Delacorte Press, [1996].

Note: Fans of Hatchet and others will relish this new novel which poses the question of how Brian would have survived a harsh wilderness winter with only a hatchet.

Fic Pau

Paulsen, Gary. The Car. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, [1994].

Note: A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.

Fic PAULSEN

Paulsen, Gary. The River. New York: Delacorte Press, [1991].

Note: Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four

days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is

asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about

the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet.".

Fic Peck

Peck, Robert Newton. Cowboy Ghost. New York: HarperCollins, [1999].

Note: Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.

Fic PECK

Peck, Robert Newton. Horse Thief. New York: HarperCollins, [2002].

Note: In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.

Fic Pierce

Pierce, Tamora. Shatterglass. New York: Scholastic, [2003].

Note: Tris and her mage-student, a young man whose glassmaking magic has been amplified and mixed with lightning, team up to track a killer who may be nearer than they suspect.

Fic Pierce

Pierce, Tamora. Trickster’s Choice. New York: Random House, [2003].

Note: Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.

Fic Rinaldi

Rinaldi, Ann. A Stitch in Time. New York: Scholastic, [1994].

Note: Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.

Fic SPINELLI

Spinelli, Jerry. Crash. Knopf, [1996].

Note: Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.

Fic Voigt

Voight, Cynthia. Homecoming. New York: Atheneum, [1981].

Note: Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

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Other Titles Recommended but not available in the school library:

Fic AMI

Amis, Kingsley. We Are All Guilty. New York: Viking, [1991].

Note: Set in working class London, We Are All Guilty centers on one incident in the life of Clive, an unemployed, directionless, and bored dropout who hates his stepfather and seems destined to drift until he finds trouble. Inevitably, that trouble comes when Clive and a friend, on a whim, break into a warehouse and cause the guard to fall off a platform and become paralyzed.

Fic CRE

Crew, Linda. A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, [2005].

Note: The story is narrated by spirited, independent Lovisa. Confident that her family's excellent planning and careful provisioning will keep them safe, she revels in the adventure of getting a fresh start in the glorious West. Good health, campfire dances, and plentiful food soon give way to fever, discord, and privation. The Kings and their fellow travelers see their families reduced by disease and accidents, and tested almost beyond their comprehension. Extraordinary effort and sacrifice are rewarded when they finally reach their destination.

Fic HAUTMAN

Hautman, Pete. Godless. New York: Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers, [2004].

Note: When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.

Fic MYE

Myers, Walter Dean. Slam! New York: Scholastic, [1998].

Note: Seventeen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

FIC NYE

Nye, Naomi Shihab. Going Going. New York: Greenwillow Books, [2005].

Note: In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores.

Fic Pec

Peck, Richard. The Last Safe Place on Earth. New York: Laurel-Leaf, [1996].

Note: Fifteen-year-old Todd sees his perfect suburban world start to unravel when his little sister has her mind poisoned by a member of a fundamentalist sect, and he begins to notice signs of censorship in his community.

Fic SLEATOR

Sleator, William. The Last Universe. New York: Amulet Books, [2005].

Note: When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

Fic WHI

Whittaker, Dorothy. Angels of the Swamp. New York: Walker, [1992].

Note: Taffy, a fifteen-year-old orphan, joins two boys who have been forced to leave their homes and the three of them try to survive the summer of 1932 on an island off the west coast of Florida.

Fic WIN

Winton, Tim. Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo. Boston: Little, Brown, [1991].

Note: Thirteen-year-old Lockie, an Australian surfer, is happier riding the waves than he is trying to cope with being popular and in love.

All annotations are excerpts from Amazon.com and Novelist.

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