What would you do to get your family back together? Samuel, a thirteen year old
boy, likes to be in the forest, where he finds food for his family by hunting.
One day, while hunting, he sees smoke coming from the direction of his home. A
war had come through his town, and the British had taken Samuel’s parents as
prisoners of war, so Samuel and his little sister follow them through the woods
off the beaten path. He finds many people along the way that help them get to
this family and try to help take them back. Samuel saw so much death or war
along the way. But will they get to the family in time?
"He
cried over each corpse, thinking of them living, thinking of them
meeting
in the cabin and living and talking and laughing and. . .
just
being. And now all gone. Gone. He could not stop crying,
thinking
of his parents, wondering, worrying" (p. 31).
Once I
got into the story, this book is such a page-turner; I couldn’t put it down! The
scenes are so life-like, I feel like I can visualize them right in front of me.
The descriptiveness of this author’s style is so stimulating to your senses it
makes you want to read more and more. You will have to read more of Woods Runner
by Gary Paulson to find out more!
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