wild children

Following the death of his father, Blue Baker starts to get picked on by the town bully and so begins writing a story about a savage child who lives in the woods. When the "savage" pays a visit to the bully, however, Blue starts to wonder if there is any real difference between himself and the savage.

Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.

Discusses a six-year-old boy who had been described by a psychiatrist as "a feral child, as wild as if he'd been raised by animals.".

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.

A little girl who lives alone in the wilderness with only a small brown dog for company, is frightened when a bear tries to enter her cave, but she soon sees the bear for what it really is--a mom looking for her baby.

Tells the stories of feral children throughout history, including Peter the Wild Boy; Kaspar Hauser; two girls raised by wolves in India; a boy raised by monkeys in Uganda; Genie, a girl who lived for twelve years locked alone in a room in California; and others; and discusses scientists' study of related issues, such as language acquisition.

After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.

Abandoned as a child, Gruff, a human boy, grows up with the wolves, but his life changes when the forest is invaded by Werewolves who want him to join them, and although he resists, when the full moon rises, the boy is hard pressed to remain in control.

Describes the phenomenon of feral children, and relates several historical case studies of children found in the wild or surviving with limited human contact.

An account of the public life of a young boy who appeared in a French village in 1800 after living as a wild animal for most of his eleven or twelve years and of the attempts of a doctor to bring him to a civilized state.