Books like The Clan of the Cave Bear
Orphaned by an earthquake, a five-year-old Cro-Magnon girl is found by a band of Neanderthals and raised by their medicine woman, and as Ayla grows into a tall, questioning young woman among people who cannot understand her, she draws the hatred of the clan's future leader.
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Wolf of the Plains
When his father, a Mongol khan, is poisoned, eleven-year-old Temujin and his family are cast out of the tribe to die on the freezing steppe, and the boy who survives grows into the warlord who will unite the tribes as Genghis Khan.
Rite of Passage
A girl on a vast generation ship must pass a deadly coming-of-age trial: survive alone on an alien planet for thirty days.
Weyward
In 2019 Kate flees an abusive partner for the cottage in Cumbria left to her by a great-aunt, and her story twines with those of Violet, a girl confined to her family's estate in 1942, and Altha, tried for witchcraft in 1619.
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Esme, a motherless girl, grows up under the sorting table of the Scriptorium in Oxford, where her father and other lexicographers are compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, and starts to keep the words they throw away.
Shogun
In 1600, English pilot John Blackthorne is shipwrecked in Japan and drawn into the plans of Lord Toranaga, who means to become shogun, in an epic of clashing cultures.
The Wall
A woman in an Alpine hunting lodge wakes to find the outside world apparently frozen behind an invisible wall and settles into writing the account of her survival.
My Brilliant Friend
A shoemaker's brilliant daughter in postwar Naples forms an intense friendship that spans sixty years, surviving poverty, violence, ambition, and the changing face of Italy.
Ammonite
On Jeep, a planet where a virus killed all the men among the first colonists and many of the women, the descendants have lived for generations without men, and Marghe Taishan, an anthropologist, arrives to test a vaccine on herself and learn how the women have children.
The Calamity Club
In Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, Meg, an eleven-year-old left by her mother at the county orphan asylum for girls, and Birdie, who has come to town to beg her socialite sister for money to save the family home, find their lives tangling together in the depths of the Depression.
Hatchet
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only passenger on a small plane to his father's oil site in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot dies of a heart attack, and after the crash he has nothing to survive with but a hatchet.
The Vaster Wilds
A colonial-era woman flees into the Virginia wilderness and must survive alone, carrying the weight of everything she's running from.
Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.