# Just Keep Walking

**Author:** Erin Soderberg Downing
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 207
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781338851403`
**ISBN-10:** `1338851403`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/just-keep-walking
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

On a wilderness backpacking trip, a girl navigating the end of a friendship learns about resilience one step at a time. Erin Soderberg Downing's middle-grade novel is about friendship, the outdoors, and finding your own footing. Selected for the 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (grades 3-5), chosen each year by the Oklahoma Library Association.

## Themes

- friendship
- nature
- resilience

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

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