Lost on a Mountain in Maine

By Donn Fendler, Joseph B. Egan (contributor),

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*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Paul Sparks, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Ethan Slater*

Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of Mount Katahdin, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages.

Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler steps away from…


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Why read it?

1 author picked Lost on a Mountain in Maine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

From the mid-nineties to the early two thousands, I spent much of my free time hiking mountains all over the northeast United States. I have been lost both alone and with groups in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and White Mountains. Katahdin, the mountain on which the subject of this story was lost, is in a wilderness I have traveled. This boy's true ordeal brought my spirit back to walk beside him. I could feel his loneliness, sadness, and ravaged body as if it were my own. I guess everyone can gain from his experience.

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