Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

Dogsong is a good kind of survival book. I would recommend this book to a type of outdoors kind of person. It is about a boy named Russel who is tired of waking up every morning to his dad coughing and hearing the sound of snowmobiles. He leaves his house and goes to a guy's house whose name is Oogruck. Oogruck is a very old fasion kind of guy. He wants the world to be like it was in the old days, without snowmobiles or guns. He said that when someone killed an animal, it was because they wanted to die. When you kill them with guns, they don't really have a choice to die. He also said that when you killed a animal you would have a song that you would sing. Russel wanted to learn what his song was.

He started off on his journy to live off the land. He didn't ride a snowmobile, he had a dog sled. The weapon he used was a bow an arrow and a harpoon. Then after awhile on his journey, he started having some dreams about a guy with a beard and long hair. After awihle in his first dream, Russel realized that he was the guy in his dream. The first dream involved wolves attacking him, but eventually he killed them and ate them. The second dream was about a mamoth that he killed and ate. After every time he killed an animal Russel in his dream would start singing a song. Russel didn't know the words, but he knew what they meant. eventually that became his song that he would sing in real life.