Self-reliance Fiction




The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

The Crow-Girl by Bodil Bredsdorff

Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner

Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Crunch by Leslie Connor

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

“Captains Courageous” by Rudyard Kipling

Down the Long Hills by Louis L’Amour

Clancy’s Cabin by Margaret Mahy

Blueberry Mountain by Stephen W. Meader

The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop

Child of the Mountains by Marilyn Sue Shank

Hills End by Ivan Southall

The Lion’s Paw by Robb White