My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by Jean Craighead George
Survivalist books were such a Thing when I was a kid, not unlike how dystopian fiction is now. I read, like, all of these: [b:Hatchet|50|Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)|Gary Paulsen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385297074s/50.jpg|1158125], [b:Big Red|123170|Big Red (Big Red, #1)|Jim Kjelgaard|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320551723s/123170.jpg|1206723], [b:White Fang|43035|White Fang|Jack London|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475878443s/43035.jpg|2949952], various [a:Farley Mowat|41013|Farley Mowat|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1233807350p2/41013.jpg] books, and I'm sure a bunch I'm forgetting. I forgot until I saw her name that JCG was one of my favorite authors as a kid, and I even remember where in my local library her books were shelved.
I never made the connection before, but there's not much space between surviving all the stuff in the woods that's indifferently trying to kill you and surviving a human-constructed dystopia that's indifferently (or... differently?) trying to kill you, is there?