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Outdoor and nature fiction for grades 3-7 from Multcolib My Librarian Erika

Stories that will spark an interest in nature and exploring the great outdoors. This list was created by a librarian for someone asking for recommendations. Get a list of your own by filling out the form at https://multcolib.org/my-librarian

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  • When Roz wakes up on an island, all the animals are terrified of her, and she's just as terrified of them.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — j BROWN 2016
  • 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…
    BookNew York : Dutton, 1988. — j GEORGE 1988
  • Alvin Ho

    Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters

    Look, Lenore,
    When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything.
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2009] — j LOOK 2009
  • When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon. Local author.
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, ©2011. — j MELOY 2011
  • Maddy visits her grandmother in the bayou, where she learns about magic, encounters fireflies and mermaids, and helps stop an environmental disaster.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — j RHODES 2015
  • Based on the true story of a wolf named OR-7 who traveled a remarkable 1,000 miles across the Pacific Northwest. Told from the wolf's point of view. Portland author.
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — j PARRY 2019
  • Thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption, in an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters. Portland author.
    BookNew York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 1999. — j SMITH 1999
  • In this illustrated early chapter book, a young boy and his grandfather work together to save a beached orca.
    Book[Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2020. — j WALTERS 2020
  • Experience the world of the not so distant past when giant mammoths and saber-toothed cats roamed the Pacific Northwest and giant floods scoured the land. Graphic novel by a Portland author.
    Graphic NovelPortland, OR : Craigmore Creations, 2010. — jgn SHAPIRO 2010
  • A humorous eco-thriller about a Florida boy who becomes involved in an attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2002] — j HIAASEN
  • Dominic, Chris, Perry, Tilt, Sammi, Bryn, and Cameron compete with each other to be selected as part of a team of teenage climbers with the goal of ascending Mount Everest.
    BookNew York : Scholastic, [2012], ©2002. — j KORMAN 2012
  • Lumberjanes

    Beware the Kitten Holy

    Stevenson, ND,
    Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together-- and they're not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way! Graphic novel.
    Graphic NovelLos Angeles, CA : BOOM! Box, 2015. — jgn STEVENSON 2015
  • When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022. — j PAULSEN 2022
  • When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013. — j ENGLE 2013
  • Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have…
    UnknownWashington, D.C. : National Geographic Society ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©1997. — j SKURZYNSK