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Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat follows Jamie Macnair, a Toronto boarding school student, who joins his uncle Angus in the remote wilderness of northern Canada. Jamie befriends a Cree boy, Awasin, and together they embark on a journey to help a starving Denésuliné camp. Stranded in the Barrens, they must use their survival skills to endure the harsh winter and eventually find safety with the help of an Inuit boy named Peetyuk. The book uses outdated and offensive language to describe Indigenous and First Nations peoples.