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2) Mother was a lovely beast: a feral man anthology, fiction and fact about humans raised by animals
Publisher
Chilton Book Co
Pub. Date
1974.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl relates the facts that are known about the discovery of two young girls in India in 1920 who are said to be raised by wolves, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1979]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traveling illegally at night on the Colorado River with a mysterious cargo, two boys are shipwrecked and must depend for survival on their own ingenuity and a wild boy they find living along the river.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies ... He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two...
8) The wild boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of a boy who grew up like a wild animal in the forests of France and was later captured and studied by doctors in Paris, but never became completely civilized.
10) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wild, nameless girl the townspeople call Wee Sister Strange roams through forests and marshes and bogs in search of a bedtime story"--
13) Mama
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 1 hr. 25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot.
17) Savage lands
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
406 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones, with a terrified, feral child lurking within. Unbeknownst to Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito, they have disturbed a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years. A killer who wants that boy back. But the cage of bones is also a box of secrets-- secrets linking Brennan to the madman in their...
19) The good dream
Author
Language
English
Description
Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother's death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.
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