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Teens in the Great Outdoors

YA novels about teens and tweens who explore the outside world!

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  • A captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — TEEN LONG
  • When rebellious seventeen-year-old Rilla is sent from West Virginia to stay with her park ranger sister in Yosemite National Park, she risks everything as her summer becomes one ecstatic, harrowing experience after another.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2018. — TEEN LEMON
  • Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with…
    BookNew York : Razorbill, 2021. — TEEN DEVOS
  • While Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon in the Arizona desert, a flash flood carries away her father and all of their supplies. Now Nora has to rescue herself and try to find her father as she's tormented by heat, thirst, and…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — J BOWLING
  • When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants…
    BookNaperville, Ilinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — TEEN PARK
  • Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and…
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2020] — J LEE
  • When she comes to the realization that she has no real friends despite her many followers on social media, Mari decides to hike the John Muir Trail using her cousin's boots and trail diary.
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — TEEN KIRBY
  • In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow…
    BookToronto : Dancing Cat Books, [2017] — TEEN DIMALIN
  • Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. — TEEN SORTINO
  • A gorgeous coming-of-age novel set in a future devastated by the impact of climate change and inspired by Native Mexican beliefs. You'll fall in love with Xochitle and Emilia and the desert they navigate as they find themselves, each…
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, 2020. — TEEN OSHIRO
  • There's nothing Paisley Manning loves more than her family's summer camp - the glittering lake, the firefly trail, the time-honored traditions. But this is her last year to make memories, thanks to her mom's new boyfriend, who has plans to…
    BookNew York : Underlined, [2022] — TEEN RAINS
  • Seth is a teenage deckhand on his father's boat when he and his dog are washed overboard and swept to one of Alaska's small islands where they struggle for months to survive off land and sea, while his desperate father endures his own…
    BookFredonia, New York : Leapfrog Press, 2014. — TEEN SMELCER
  • When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, [2018] — TEEN BENNETT
  • Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — TEEN BAYRON
  • When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. — TEEN VAN DRA
  • A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship.
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2021. — TEEN LORD
  • While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends suffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, 2020. — TEEN MCFALL
  • At Camp Outland, a camp for LGBTQIA teens, sixteen-year-old Randall "Del" Kapplehoff's plan to have Hudson Aaronson-Lim fall in love with him succeeds, but both are hiding their true selves.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — TEEN ROSEN
  • When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out.
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — TEEN HENRY
  • Betrayed by her best friend and dragged off to a remote family camp, seventeen-year-old Avery's dreams of a perfect summer seem over until a whirlwind romance leads to an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — TEEN WEST