A review by syebba
Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered by Gary Paulsen

4.0

This book rather splits the line between juveniile and YA. (Will a juvenile know what puberty is? Will a YA think it's too little kid when they make fun of mooning over girls?) But either way, it is hilarious! Only in Paulsen's world do farm pigs becoming "commie japs" and putting the motor from a washing machine on a broken down bike become a good idea. Overalls are lost, horses are traumatized for life, Tarzan reenactments are miscalculated and Gene Autry plays the same scene, over and over, without sound, to the amazement of an entire community's children.
It was a lovely and hilarious book! The end, like the summer, left me a little heartbroken.