Sunday, January 17, 2010

Book Review: "Woods Runner"

'Woods Runner'
Author: Gary Paulsen Data: Wendy Lamb Books, 164 pages, $15.99
Thirteen-year-old Samuel Smith is a child of the forest. To the delight of his bookish parents - he is a voracious reader - he finds very early that he has a real affinity for surviving in the verdant wilds. Despite his youth, he becomes so proficient as a hunter that he is the primary provider of game for his small village on the edge of civilization in far western Pennsylvania.
It's 1776. The revolution has started back east and his idyllic existence is shattered when the horrors of war arrive at his doorstep.
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