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Knoxville Parent • April 2012
Ten Terrific Books About Hiking Sheep Take a Hike By Nancy Shaw Reading level: PreK – 1st Sheep lost on a hike discover a trail of wool that they have left behind which helps them find their way.
Compiled this month by Shelley Headrick Children’s Department, Chattanooga Public Library
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things By Wendelin Van Draanen Reading level: 5th – 8th Super sleuth Sammy Keyes joins forces with the Girls Scouts on a hike and camping trip.
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters By Lenore Look Do Princesses Wear Reading level: 2nd – 4th Hiking Boots? Young Alvin Ho is By Carmela LaVigna afraid of everything, Coyle so spending time in Reading level: PreK – 1st the great outdoors A little girl asks proves to be a her mother various daunting experience. questions about princesses, including if they wear hiking boots and play outside. Halfway to the Sky By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Henry Hikes to Reading level: 5th – Fitchburg 8th By D.B. Johnson Twelve-year-old Reading level: PreK – 3rd Dani and her mother Unlike his friends, hike part of the Henry decides the Appalachian Trail. best way to travel to Fitchburg is by walking. Pocket Guide to the Outdoors: Based on My Side of the Mountain Little Red Riding Hood By Jean Craighead George By Gennady Spirin Reading level: 5th – 8th Reading level: 1st – 3rd This outdoor guide provides In this beautifully excellent information illustrated version of for hiking and camping the classic story, a girl enthusiasts. walking in the woods to her grandmother’s house meets a dangerous wolf.
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The Divide By Elizabeth Kay Reading level: 5th – 9th A hike along the Continental Divide in Costa Rica changes drastically for Felix when he is transported to a fantastical world.
Trouble By Gary D. Schmidt Reading level: 8th – 12th After the death of his brother, Henry and some friends climb Mt. Katahdin in Maine.