Wild Bird Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Wendelin Van Draanen
SCORE
5
TOTAL RATINGS
67

Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen Book Summary

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

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Book Name Wild Bird
Genre Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 4.07 MB

Wild Bird (Wendelin Van Draanen) Book Reviews 2024

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Wild Bird. This book is an inspiration to me. It is full of anger, pain sadness, and more. I definitely recommend read this book.

Brilliant. Haunting. Essential.. Filling your home to bursting with anger? Or coping with someone who does? Survival in the desert might be simpler. Rarely have I ever cared so much about a character that first made me feel so intensely uncomfortable. Wren begins the story angry, dangerously smart, manipulative, and a sharp observer of her world, who sometimes turns observations backward to fit expectations. She is angry enough to make the pages seem like fire-starter. Seeing the world from her perspective is painful, illuminating, and impossible to put down. She is in a personal wilderness, and soon lands in the real physical wilderness of Utah, at wilderness therapy camp. Knowing what brought her there once felt important. I loved Wren as the story closed, but wanted Wren-agade out of my head. So I’ve thought about this book for months, considering my reaction to two versions of one person. Judging creates that difference. During her stay in the desert, a few key characters quietly accept Wren without judgement, care without conditions, and listen. They wait. Watching the result over time? Life changing for this reader. Wren’s first step onto a long, slippery slope is being lonely, and choosing unwisely when choices are few. After that step, gravity rules, and she lands a long way from anywhere planned. That first missed step could be anyone’s. So a list of how Wren went astray is unhelpful, and invites judgement better avoided. The multiple journeys Wren makes are interwoven—her route into personal wilderness, learning the Utah desert, coming to terms with herself, discovering her own way out—all are here, and detail makes each quite real. This book impels one to speed. But it is also deep and intricate, revealing people in all of their subtle complexity. The story is told in small parts, with chapters of often just three concise pages. The result is remarkably beautiful. Wild Bird has slowly trickled deep into my heart. Like water in the desert, and powerful words for personal deserts, what this book offers is vital, and worth the effort to make your own. Learn Chapter 59 by heart. It will help you avoid landing in places you never intended to go, and help you navigate.

Please, please give this a read.. This book touched me in the heart like no book has for a long time. If you’ve known what it’s like to be hurt, angry, and lost, please read this book. Not only did I find it relatable and compelling, it actually helped me to put together some pieces of my own heart and take steps toward a better future for myself.

An amazing book. This book was full of adventure and emotion, as the main character, Wren goes through a very tough 58 days thriving to survive in the desert. I would strongly recommend this book to middle and high schoolers, as Wren is a troubled middle schooler who many of us can probably relate to.

Wow!. I relate a lot to this story. I read this book in a therapeutic wilderness program in Georgia. It’s two very different wildernesses but I felt so safe reading this book, knowing I’m not the only one going through what I was going through in the wilderness.

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The Wild Bird book written by Wendelin Van Draanen was published on 05 September 2017, Tuesday in the Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults category. A total of 67 readers of the book gave the book 5 points out of 5.

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