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Wild Bird

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In her most incisive and insightful book yet, Wendelin Van Draanen, award-winning creator of The Running Dream and Flipped, offers a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom, but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp within the desert.

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. That is what happens to kids who’ve gone up to now off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. That is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping within the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.
 
The Wren who arrives within the Utah desert is indignant and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But indignant can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs lend a hand if she’s going to live to tell the tale.

Advance praise for Wild Bird:
“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

 
Praise for Wendelin van Draanen’s The Running Dream:
“[An] accessible and inspirational novel.” —The Horn Book Magazine
 
“Readers will in reality feel what’s it like to walk (or run) a mile (or 10) in Jessica’s shoes.” —Booklist
 
“Inspirational. The pace of Van Draanen’s prose matches Jessica’s at her swiftest. Readers will zoom through the book just as Jessica blazes across the track. A full of life and lovely story.” —Kirkus Reviews

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