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Samuel is out hunting a few miles from his cabin when he sees smoke in the air that he can't identify and knows that something is wrong. When he returns to his home it has been ransacked and his parents are missing-a better fate than the neighbors whose bodies he finds nearby. Samuel makes it his mission to track the redcoats that took his parents and make his family whole once again. Along the way he will experience parts of the war that he had been blissfully ignorant of before and his life will never be the same.
Great story of survival set during the revolutionary war. Recommended especially for boys who enjoy history/war stories.
Samuel's family is captured by the British at the start of the Revolutionary War. He believes that he is all alone in his attempt to rescue is parents, but along the way the men and women of the Colonies provide him with much needed help. His rescue mission takes him deep into enemy territory.
Guts and bolts backstage look at the Revolutionary War in a young man's struggle to save his family.
Gary Paulsen sure knows how to tell a survival story with all the brutal details.
A good historical fiction read. Great for boys and girls who like the outdoors.
Great book to use for the Revolutionary War. I like how there is factual information with each chapter to help the reader get a better understanding of what happened back then. I can see boys really liking this book.
This is an interesting supplement to other books about the Revolutionary War. It isn't my favorite Paulsen book, but it is worthwhile.
Samuel was just thirteen, but he lived on a frontier where even when things were normal, someone his age was thirteen going on thirty. Childhood ended when it was possible to help with chores; for a healthy boy or girl, it ended at eight or nine, possibly ten.
Because of his parents' nature--their lack of physical skills, their joy in gentleness, their love of books and music, their almost childlike wonder in knowing all they could about the whole wide world, but not necessarily the world right around them--Samuel had become the provider for his family.
As he embraced the forest, his skill at hunting grew. Actually, the forest embraced him, took him in, made him, as the French said, a courier du bois, a woods runner. Soon he provided meat for nearly the whole settlement, and in turn, the other men and women helped Samuel's parents with their small farm and took over Samuel's chores when he was in the woods.
Direct, gritty, and brutally honest, this is a story of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War from Samuel's perspective. From the simple, isolated, and primitive life his parents have chosen in the woods on the edge of a vast wilderness to the brutal attack by Redcoats and Indians that wipes out Samuel's world, from the horrifying treatment his parents receive as war prisoners to the gruesome effectiveness of the war's weapons due to virtually nonexistent medical treatment, this book takes a different look at the historical circumstances. It's also an exciting tale of survival as Samuel tracks the unit that has taken his parents in the hopes of rescuing them while doing his best to avoid capture himself. Simple--but not simplistic--and gripping.
Because of his parents' nature--their lack of physical skills, their joy in gentleness, their love of books and music, their almost childlike wonder in knowing all they could about the whole wide world, but not necessarily the world right around them--Samuel had become the provider for his family.
As he embraced the forest, his skill at hunting grew. Actually, the forest embraced him, took him in, made him, as the French said, a courier du bois, a woods runner. Soon he provided meat for nearly the whole settlement, and in turn, the other men and women helped Samuel's parents with their small farm and took over Samuel's chores when he was in the woods.
Direct, gritty, and brutally honest, this is a story of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War from Samuel's perspective. From the simple, isolated, and primitive life his parents have chosen in the woods on the edge of a vast wilderness to the brutal attack by Redcoats and Indians that wipes out Samuel's world, from the horrifying treatment his parents receive as war prisoners to the gruesome effectiveness of the war's weapons due to virtually nonexistent medical treatment, this book takes a different look at the historical circumstances. It's also an exciting tale of survival as Samuel tracks the unit that has taken his parents in the hopes of rescuing them while doing his best to avoid capture himself. Simple--but not simplistic--and gripping.
Gary Paulsen is always my go-to for high-interest low-readability for boys. I should read this as a read aloud when I teach the Revolutionary War. It's definitely one-sided, but war is never fair, so it's difficult to portray without bias.