# Rescue Josh McGuire

**Author:** Ben Mikaelsen
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1991
**Page count:** 266
**Genre:** Adventure
**ISBN-13:** `9781562820992`
**ISBN-10:** `1562820990`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/rescue-josh-mcguire
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When thirteen-year-old Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm.

## Themes

- wildlife rescue
- orphaned animals
- bears
- runaways

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 1995 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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