The "Hatchet" and the movie version "A Cry in the Wild" got me into the outdoors.
I'm currently reading "Hatchet" to my daughters at bedtime, but I skip all the stuff about Brian's parents divorcing. Before that I read them the "My side of the mountain" books which they really liked.
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