Feral Youth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481491112)

Ten teens are left alone in the wilderness during a three-day survival test in this multi-authored novel edited by award-winning author Shaun David Hutchinson.

At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor-education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard work, cooperation, and compassion, ten teens are left alone in the wild. The teens are a diverse group who come all walks of life, and were all sent to Zeppelin Bend as a last chance to get them to turn their lives around. They've just spent nearly two weeks hiking, working, learning to survive in the wilderness, and now their instructors have dropped them off eighteen miles from camp with no food, no water, and only their packs, and they'll have to struggle to overcome their vast differences if they hope to survive.

Inspired by The Canterbury Tales, the characters in Feral Youth, each complex and damaged in their own ways, are enticed to tell a story (or two) with the promise of a cash prize. The stories range from noir-inspired revenge tales to mythological stories of fierce heroines and angry gods. And while few of the stories are claimed to be based in truth, they ultimately reveal more about the teller than the truth ever could.

Author: Shaun David Hutchinson, Suzanne Young, Marieke Nijkamp
ISBN-10: 1481491113
ISBN-13: 9781481491112
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2017
School Library Journal 09/01/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 101
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw