Wild Bird (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 14 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp.
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. This is what happens to kids who’ve gone so far off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right.
The Wren who arrives in the Utah desert is angry and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’s going to survive.
"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
"Van Draanen’s Wren is real and relatable, and readers will root for her." —VOYA, starred review
Customer Reviews
Awesome
Very good. Hoping for a sequel!
Wild Bird
I read the reviews others had said about if this was appropriate for my 14 year old mature daughter and I to read. My daughter won’t be reading this as it will give her too many bad ideas and info about drugs and criminal behavior like shoplifting from stores and stealing from people that she doesn’t need to learn about. My advice is that if you have a child who is involved with drugs and alcohol and criminal behavior the content won’t be such a shock and could be a helpful book for personal growth. The best part of her learning to come out of it was the last hour of the book. I thought this would have more inspirational things to use for improving relationships. This is a document of this characters journey.