Great+Outdoors

The Great Outdoors

Picture Call# Title Summary Year Lexile


 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=23824J2 width="62" height="103" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=23824J2&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F BAU || Backwater || While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family. || c1999 || 810 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=27928N8 width="61" height="88" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=27928N8&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F CLE || Week in the Woods || The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him. || c2002 || 820 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=27029M8 width="66" height="91" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=27029M8&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F COO || Green Boy || Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places. || c2002 || 930 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=04047Q8 width="66" height="89" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=04047Q8&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F CRO || Dark Ground || Robert wakes up scratched and naked in a dark forest, remembering only that he had been on an airplane returning from vacation with his parents, and soon realizes he is not far from home, but that he has somehow become very small--shorter than a blade of grass--and the distance to his house seems impossible to travel. || c2004 || NA ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=06070TX width="66" height="94" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=06070TX&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F DEF || Lostman's River || In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem and, as a result, joins the battle to protect that fragile environment. || c1994 || 960 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=06862T1 width="67" height="89" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=06862T1&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F DEF || Robinson Crusoe || During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island. || c1719 || 1320 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=08525-3 width="71" height="88" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=08525-3&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F GEO || Julie of the Wolves || While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. (Newbery Medal winner) || c1972 || 860 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=34066X1 width="61" height="84" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=34066X1&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F GEO || My Side of the Mountain || A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship. || c1959 || 810 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=24773J6 width="70" height="97" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=24773J6&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F GIL || Exhange Student || When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to Earth from Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species. || c1999 || 950 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=31207V1 width="67" height="91" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=31207V1&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F GRU || Witch's Boy || A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire. || c2005 || 990 ||
 * [[image:http://www.titlewave.com/coverimage?img=cover&size=thumb&FLR=35389M7 width="69" height="83" link="http://www.titlewave.com/cover?FLR=35389M7&SID=c7b41aab5e5e7fe2745e4fd43f08ee4d&type=cover"]] || F HAN || Ida B --: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World || In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school. || c2004 || 800 ||