It’s 3:47 a.m. That’s when they come for Wren Clemmens. She’s hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who have gone so far off the rails, and their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp, where Wren will go through eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn one’s life around.

Wren arrives in the Utah desert an angry and bitter young woman, blaming everyone but herself. But anger can’t put up a tent. And bitterness won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’s going to survive.

From Wendelin Van Draanen, the award-winning author of “The Running Dream” and “Flipped,” comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp.

The path to redemption for Wren is a long and arduous adventure that every reader will experience with her, as she leaves the comforts and turmoil of home behind to venture into the unknown and come face-to-face with physical challenges and with the truth of the person she has become.

It’s an honest, powerful, and compelling story of one teenager’s journey from destruction, loneliness and bitterness to acceptance, strength and courage.

(SD-Agencies)