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