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Wild bird

When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.

Main Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Problem youth > Young adult fiction.
Adventure therapy > Young adult fiction.
Desert survival > Young adult fiction.
Utah > Young adult fiction.
Summary: When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
Physical Description: 311 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 1101940441
9781101940440
110194045X
9781101940457
Author Notes: Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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