The Bear: A Novel, Claire Cameron

While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of screaming. A rogue black bear has entered the familys campsite and is attacking her parents.

At her dying mothers urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the familys canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Annas struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore.