Book sugestions? 10 year old wants a survival fictional story.?

Question

DS just finished Teribithia (hated it most of the way) and wants to read a book about surviving the elements, a novel. Something exciting that also teaches about survival in the forest, snow, heat...whatever. Anyone read any like this?

Answer 1

My Side of the Mountain was my favorite book growing up. I actually picked it up when I was nine, but I am now 20 and still love the book.

Amazon said:
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons. "

Great book. Have him pick it up and don't expect to see him outside of his room for a few days.

Answer 2

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Amazon.com:
"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.

Answer 3

I also like "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'dell. if she (DS means daughter's?) likes it look at more Scott O'Dell.

I also like for this age:
White Fang & Call of the Wild by Jack London (I remember in 4th a non-reader girl in my class getting really excited about these)

Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

not exactly "survivalist" but In Search of a Sandhill Crane by Keith Robertson - is a great forest/nature story about a city boy learning to adapt to hiking, wildlife, forestry, birdwatching, etc while staying with his aunt in the woods.

I wouldn't put 10 yr old on "Lord of the Flies" or "Into the Wild" - both good books but thematically too difficult and disturbing (especially if she didn't like "bridge to terebithia")

Answer 4

Try Gary Paulsen. Though most of his books are fiction I doubt you'd be dissapointed. I've heard some good things about his books and they're catered toward younger readers as well. I believe he MAY have written a non-fiction book in addition to all the others but don't mark me on it.

Answer 5

I would suggest:

Surviving Anctarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Hunter by Joy Cowley

Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan

Alabama Moon by Watt Key

Answer 6

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell is a good one!!! This girl gets left on an island and has to survive....

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.... it's about a boy who gets stranded by himself in the wilderness with only a hatchet.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit is kind of like an outdoorsy survival book, it's about this family who found the fountain of youth and has to protect it basically...


Here's a list of some more from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Hatchet-Gary-Paulsen/sim/0689826990/1/ref=pd_sxp_filt_b/102-2235040-6077706?ie=UTF8&pf=3

Answer 7

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Answer 8

White Fang

Answer 9

Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Hatchet

Answer 10

Lord of the Flies