320 pages · Released Sep 5, 2017 · Simon and Schuster
Content report card
Feral Youth parent’s guide: what’s inside
Medium confidence
What it offers
Educational value
Some · 2/5
A note for parents
Feral Youth is a multi-author anthology following ten diverse teens through a wilderness survival challenge. While the premise is relatively tame, the book explores serious themes including depression, self-harm, trauma, and emotional crises—reflecting the teens' troubled backgrounds. The survival scenario itself contains some tension and physical challenges but is not graphically violent. Best suited for thoughtful teen readers comfortable with psychological depth and mental health themes.
Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.