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Survival & Wilderness Books for Ages 8–11 – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Survival & Wilderness Books for Ages 8–11

Survival fiction at chapter book age is one of the genre's great sweet spots. Children this age are old enough to understand real danger and young enough to believe they could handle it. These 2,907 books put that belief to the test through characters building shelters, finding food, and discovering what they're made of.

2,907 books

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Nightmare Island

Harley and his younger brother embark on their first solo camping adventure to Little Island, only for their trip to tur

Cover of The Ice Bear

A girl, a baker's helper, and a bear cub are swept into a dangerous political battle for power within the cold kingdom o

Cover of Dingo

Nature Storybooks

For curious kids fascinated by the wild, this lyrical journey follows a mother dingo on a sunset hunt to provide for her

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Wild Lives #1

Coyote Moon

Maria Gianferrari

A mother coyote stalks through the quiet suburban night, dodging geese and tracking prey to ensure her hungry pups are f

Ages 4–8

Cover of The Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967

The Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967

Melody Vega's summer vacation at Glacier National Park turns into a fight for survival when she encounters a terrifying

Cover of The Contest

Seven teenagers face a grueling competition to earn a spot on the climbing team that will attempt to reach the summit of

Cover of Ascent

Peak Marcello #3

Peak Marcello journeys to one of the most isolated spots on Earth for a high-stakes climb in the mountains of Myanmar.

Cover of Two Degrees

Wildfire, flood, and thinning ice force three kids from California to Manitoba into a fight for survival as they realize

Cover of Little Devils

Robert J. Blake

For children navigating the scary first steps of independence and the worry of being separated from a parent.

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Painter and Ugly

Robert J. Blake

Sled dogs Painter and Ugly are the best of friends, but when they are split into rival teams for the Junior Iditarod, th

Cover of Desert Danger

Jan Burchett, Sara Vogler

A lion cub is trapped in a well and a sandstorm is closing in. Ben and Zoe must brave the Kalahari desert's heat and dea

Cover of Henry and the Cannons

Henry and the Cannons

In the freezing winter of 1775, a bookseller hauled 59 heavy cannons across 225 miles of mountains and snow. Witness one

Cover of What Was the Alamo?

What Was the Alamo?

Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ

A small band of men holds off an entire army for twelve days in this legendary siege that changed the course of the Texa

Cover of The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed

The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed

A young man travels the 1790s American West on a spiritual mission to plant apple seeds for the hungry and create a last

Cover of Our Only May Amelia

Our Only May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm

Living in a house full of seven brothers in 1899 Washington, spirited May Amelia Jackson struggles against the pressure

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Graphic Library

The Schoolchildren's Blizzard

Donald B. Lemke

Terrifying history comes to life in this graphic novel account of students trapped in one of America’s most sudden and d

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First Biographies

Brave the freezing elements to learn how Matthew Henson reached the North Pole in 1909 and became a legendary co-discove

Cover of The Raid

G. Clifton Wisler

Fourteen-year-old Lige risks everything to rescue his kidnapped brother, going undercover in a dangerous attempt to brin

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Horrible Histories

Terrible Trenches

Life in the First World War was full of blood, mud, and lice; learn how everything from your own tea to gas-mask-wearing

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Animal Allies #1

Ravens and Wolves Team Up!

Stephanie True Peters

Watch how a watchful raven and a ravenous wolf work together to hunt, using bird's-eye views and lightning speed to catc

Cover of What Was the Gold Rush?

What Was the Gold Rush?

Joan Holub, Who HQ

Gold fever transformed the American West, sparking the rise of boomtowns and changing the relationship between pioneers

Cover of Winterbound

Margery Williams Bianco

Four siblings from the city must learn to manage a farmhouse and look after one another during a long, snowy winter in t

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Culpepper Adventures #8

Dunc Breaks the Record

A hang gliding crash leaves Dunc and Amos lost in the wild, facing dark nights, meager food, and a mysterious man holdin

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Spies, codes, and a daring rescue mission collide in Nazi-occupied France as young Samira risks everything to save her m

Survival & Wilderness for Other Ages

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