Incident At Hawk’s Hill

Incident at Hawk’s Hill

By Allan W. Eckert

Genre: Juvenile Fiction

Curriculum Subject: Animals: Badgers ; Wilderness survival; History; Self-esteem

Grades: 7 & up

Six-year-old Ben is very small for his age, and gets along better with animals than people. One June day in 1870, Ben wanders away from his home on Hawk’s Hill and disappears into the waving prairie grass. This is the story of how a shy, lonely boy survives for months in the wilds and forges a bond with a female badger.