BOOK: Preacher's boy by Paterson

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Paterson, Katerine._Preacher's Boy_, 1999
Clarion [0-395-83897-5]
It is the summer of 1899 and there was so much that Robbie had
wanted to do before the world ended in 1900 (as some people said
it would.)  It was not easy being a preacher's son in the Vermont
town but eleven-year-old Robbie got along okay -- well at least until
he got so mad at a neighbor that he nearly drown him all because
he was teasing him about his retarded brother.  Robbie runs away
and meets a girl and a drunken father living in an abandoned cabin.
 That starts the beginning of an adventure which ends in Robbie
riding in a motor car.  This 168 page book is a good historical
fiction piece, at time humorous, and reminded me a lot of the
author's "Jip."  Robbie reads Huck Finn in the story and the reader
may even see a lot of similarities between the two boys.

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