A Girls Guide to the Wild

Girl's Guide to the Wild: Be an Adventure-Seeking Outdoor Explorer! Girls just want to have fun, especially when they're exploring the great outdoors! In this accessible, engaging, and empowering handbook, girls ages 9 to 12 will learn what they need to get outside, including basic outdoor skills, ideas for what to do, camping and hiking basics, body stuff in the wilderness, tasty recipes, and science experiments and crafts, as well as learning advanced skills such as maps, weather, and first aid.

A Girl's Guide to the Wild also features profiles and stories of inspiring outdoorswomen, historical and contemporary, such as Arunima Sinha, the first amputee woman to summit Mount Everest; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts; and Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod.