Nature Girl

BOOK NAME: Nature Girl
AUTHOR: Jane Kelley

Being stuck in Vermont with no internet, cell phones, best friends, or TV was NOT on Megan’s summer to-do list, but it was on her parents’. Megan leaves home with her family to go to Vermont, only to find that her days will revolve around hiking, watching her sister and her boyfriend flirt, and drawing for hours upon end.

Megan isn’t so sure she will survive this vacation, especially when she gets lost on the Appalachian Trail. Once lost, she has a choice; she can wait for help or hike the whole trail to prove to everyone she can survive.

I think the author created a typical family in this book and the characters were so predictable. Although I did like the book, it wasn’t good enough to read again. In the book, Jane Kelley kind of re-created and modernized My Side of the Mountain, using a girl instead of a young boy.

In this book, Megan learned a lesson about not giving up and being brave. When she got lost in the woods, I thought that maybe she’d come to love nature and the woods. It seems like Megan just learned her lesson and the Appalachian Trail was used to make her lesson more interesting. Megan DID learn and understand her wrong doings in the end, but it was rough getting there.

This book is recommended for girls ages 9 to 12. It didn’t have any crude language or anything frightening in it. Nature Girl is a calm, humorous book with a few illustrations drawn by the character, Megan, on her journey through the Appalachian Trail.

Comments

jindo2108
August 2, 2010, 1:01 pm

Sounds like a book I might read just for some fun. The storyline does sound pretty predictable. Megan might even kinda irritate me, with the girl can’t like nature and all.
Do you find that sometimes predictable books will be partly painful, just since you know what is going to happen?
bookfreak188
August 2, 2010, 1:26 pm

Dear Emelie,
This sounds like a pretty intresting book!!! Im soo going to read it. and the beginning sounds pretty intresting. so yea im going to read it!!! Hey how do you put books on here?
climber
August 2, 2010, 2:25 pm

SO GOIN’ 2!
sonnyreadsharrypotter
August 2, 2010, 3:32 pm

The author doesn’t sound very original. Although the book sounds pleasentI must agree with the first commenter.
starz321
August 2, 2010, 5:14 pm

wow that sounds soooo good!!!
climber
August 2, 2010, 8:01 pm

My first comment i forgot this why is the title called that? if she dos’t like nature?
auga1957
August 3, 2010, 3:14 pm

I think your book is awsome because I love love love nature it’s awsome
2whitie
August 4, 2010, 11:59 pm

Hey climber, I think it might be callednature girl because she maybe grows to love it. I do not know though. Good question.
PatheticallyPathetic
August 17, 2010, 8:13 pm

jindo2108, great galloping peanuts. I have to agree! She got on my nerve a little bit but I think you SHOULD read it. XD

Climber and 2whitie, exactly! You nailed it, dear.

I hope you give this book a chance!

- Emelie
iwiklol
August 23, 2010, 10:28 am

i haven’t read this book yet but it sounds good so on my next trip to the library I’m going to see if i can check it out
zoenightshade12
August 27, 2010, 1:12 pm

It sounds ok, but it isn’t very original so i might not read it
Anonymous
August 28, 2010, 7:54 pm

I am NEW here. And I need a very kind person to tell my how to get books on here. PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE!?!?!
HermioneGranger
September 1, 2010, 9:05 am

i have this book:)
it’s awesome..Read it if u can!!
PatheticallyPathetic
September 3, 2010, 6:07 pm

You’re new, that neat. You don’t buy or get books. There are just reviews that you can read. They help you find new books to read! Look around and feel free to comment on anything!

Your DogEared Blogger,
Emelie
zoenightshade12
September 4, 2010, 8:17 pm

Also, person Emelie just helped, you can even enter a contest this fall to see if you can become a blogger!
Sunfloewr7
October 29, 2010, 1:15 pm

This is totally unrelated to this review, but I read My Side of the Mountain when I was a kid and really enjoyed it. I’ve spent the better part of 10 years trying to remember the title. Asking around, giving the people a synopsis of the book did no good. Thank you so much!
sassafrass
December 9, 2011, 10:51 pm

this book was a good and easy read lots of adventure and exploring the wilderness of not only her back yard but vermont too.i hightly recomend this book.