Lost in the Barrens is a children's novel by Farley Mowat, first published in 1956. Some editions used the title Two Against the North.
It won a Governor General's Award in 1956 and the Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1958.
This is a childrens' or young adults' adventure story that takes place in Canada's low arctic just north of the tree line in roughly the late 1940s or early 1950s. It tells a coming of age tale of two boys in their late teens; one, a white boy who has recently lost his parents, the other a Cree Indian from a tribe living nearby. The boys embark on a mission to relieve the starvation of a neighbouring Indian village, the Chipeweyans, but due to a series of unfortunate events become trapped above the tree line in Canada's northern Barren Lands during winter. The characters emerge again in Mowat's The Curse of the Viking Grave.