# Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness

**Author:** Donn Fendler
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2011
**Page count:** 73
**Genre:** Nonfiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780892729456`
**ISBN-10:** `0892729457`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/lost-trail-nine-days-alone-in-the-wilderness
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Donn Fendler's harrowing story of being lost in the Maine wilderness when he was just twelve, was made famous by the perennial best-seller, Lost on a Mountain in Maine. In Lost Trail, more than 70 years after the event, Donn tells the story of survival and rescue from his own perspective. Lost Trail is a masterfully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of a twelve year old boyscout from a New York City suburb who climbs Maine,s mile-high Mt. Katahdin and in a sudden storm is separated from his friends and family.

## Where this book is assigned

### Maine Student Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2013 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2013 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2013 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2013 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2013 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)

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