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Recommended reading
GRADES 4 AND UP
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (and many other great adventure stories by the same author)
  • Medicine Walk by Ardath Mayhar
  • Drift by Harry Mazer
  • Island of Blue Dolfins by Scott O'Dell (many other great books by this author)
  • The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
  • Canyons; The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulson
  • Kavik: the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey
  • Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

BY SUBJECT AND GRADE
Recommended by Intern/Students
  • "Gutsy Girls, Young Women Who Dare" by Tina Schwager and Michele Schuerger. (Emily and Kate)
THE ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY

Grade 7-9
  • Circle Within a Circle by Monte Killingsworth
  • Sky Water by Melinda Ann Popham
Grade 6-8
  • Time Ghost by Welwyn Wilton Katz
Grade 6-7
  • The Fire Bug Connection: An Ecological Mystery by Jean Craighead George
CAMPING/WILDERNESS
Grade 6-8
  • The Fear Place by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Wild Timothy by Cary L. Blackwood
CAVING
  • The Cave by Kathleen Karr
BICYCLING
Grade 7-10
  • Morelli's Game by Patricia Bauch
COMING OF AGE
Grade 6-10
  • Runs with Horses by Brian Burks or Burns
  • Stepping Stones by Ron Gold
  • Reef by Romish Gunesekera
  • A Boys own Story by Edmund White
Grade 10 - adult
  • Minus Time by Catherine Bush
7-10
  • The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
7-10
  • Into the Valley by Michael Williams
6-7
  • Guests by Michael Dorris
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
Grade 6-8
  • The Amazon Influence by Marion Woodson
8-12
  • California Blue by David Klass
6-9
  • The Last Oasis by Sue Pace
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Grade 6-8
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
PERSONAL STRUGGLE
Grade 8-12
  • Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
9-12
  • Deliver us from Evil by M E Kerr
6-10
  • The Eagle Kite by Paula Fox
7-10
  • From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
  • Trying Hard to Hear You by Sandra Scoppetone
  • Face the Dragon by Joyce Sweeney
7-10
  • Peter by Kate Walker
ELDERLY
Grade 6-9
  • Visiting Miss Pierce by Pat Derby
7-10
  • The Pig Man by Paul Zindel
FRIENDSHIP
Grade 6-8
  • The Fog Doggies by Gayle Pearson
PEER PRESSURE/SELF RESPECT
  • Such Nice Kids by Eve Bunting
  • Izzy Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voight
SELF CONFIDENCE
Grade 6-9
  • The Boy Who Loved Alligators
7-10
  • Picking up the Pieces by Patricia Calvert
6-8
  • Buddy Love by Ilene Cooper
6-9
  • The Other Side of Silence by Margaret Malry
SHIPWRECKS
Grade 6-7
  • Shipwrecked on Padre Island by Isabel R. Marvin
  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor
6-10
  • Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
TEEN RELATIONSHIPS/HUMOR
Grade 11-adult
  • The Mortician's Apprentice by Rick Demarinis
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