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Wilderness Wars Reader Reviews

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Wilderness Wars

Loved this book. Very dramatic and interesting. Didn't want to put it down.

Brilliant book. Really dramatic at times and I couldn't stop reading it.

Isabelle Bavister

A modern fable about nature and future generations, and a vivid story full of near-misses and sinister accidents. Realistic adventure which I really enjoyed.

The story is about a girl around my age who moves with her family to an uninhabited island with her bother and parents so that her father can help work on the development of a resort there.

It is a very fast story, full of action, events and great scenes where nature, the wilderness, and some of the creature in the island start to ‘fight back’. It is not very complicated and there aren’t lots of extra people within the story, mainly just Em and her friend Zac who quickly realise what is going on. However, their problem then is to convince the teacher and parents.

It is really a story of one generation’s destruction of the environment and their need to change their behaviour for the sake of nature and the next generations to come. It is a book to make you think and an easy to read, realistic adventure story. You may even be able to call it a modern fable. I liked it both as a story and as a message.

Charlotte Dunn

Overall, I think it is great book, and I highly recommend it read it.

Wilderness wars is a book by Barbra Henderson, it was published by pokey hat in 2018. It is a relatively long story with the plot about a 12 year old girl called Em. Her family and many others are moving as part of a building team sent to build on a small uninhabited island of Skelsay, with her dad being one of the lead roles in the project. Within the project they are trying to build a luxury retreat into the wild with shooting ranges, pools, wild swimming and much much more. But this is just a theory a dream if you may put it because, NATURE FIGHTS BACK, they are blessed with freak weather and more.
Possibly my favourite character is Struan due to the fact that all he really does is jump about with his army of kids and plays about aimlessly. Also, on that note my least favorite character is rather controversial pick of the bunch but Em herself, I just find her too typical of a character for my liking.

I am an advanced reader, but this book was easy to read which leads me to believe that this is a book for 8–12-year-olds. The theme I think is eco adventure with the odd horrifying thing happening here and there.

Overall, I think it is great book, and I highly recommend it read it.

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