Greetings to all,
Sometimes you're looking for something different in a book-maybe something that
offers our kids a chance to walk in someone else's shoes for an hour or two. This
new one from Gary Paulsen, WOODS RUNNER, does just that. It's made even more
powerful by alternating fiction and non-fiction as the tale unfolds. The story is
set in the time of the American Revolution. It asks the questions what was it like
to live in these times and what was it like to be a thirteen year old boy who comes
home to find the tracks of marauders and the scuff marks of his parents feet as
they were dragged away? Whoa!
WOODS RUNNER by Gary Paulsen: Hunting deer in the woods where he feels at home,
thirteen-year-old Samuel suddenly senses a change in the sounds of the forest and
charges home to find his parents missing. Samuel follows the tracks of the Indians
and the British troops who have attacked their home at the edge of the wilderness.
This is the story of his journey through the brutality and struggle of the American
Revolutionary war and of the life of a young man who will need to rely on his
skills to survive and to save those he loves. Ingeniously, Gary Paulsen alternates
non-fiction passages about weaponry, prisoners of war, etc. between the chapters of
the story. The non-fiction informs and enlarges the powerful setting and its
terrible challenges.
Join me on abookandahug.com
Best,
Barb
Barb Langridge
Children's Services
Howard County Central Library
10375 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21045
410 313-7880
barb.langridge@hclibrary.org
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