| Booktalk
#1
Eleven-year-old Mark Chelmsley
moves into rural New Hampshire's Hardy Elementary School with just weeks
left of the school year. Mark is indifferent towards his new school
and classmates because his wealthy absentee parents plan to enroll Mark
in a private school the following year. Mark's attitude causes his
teacher, Mr. Maxwell, to view him as a slacker and a spoiled rich kid.
Mark spends his non-school hours on a solo discovery of the New Hampshire
countryside. He reluctantly attends Mr. Maxwell's prized environmental
camp. The week proves to be a test of will and ultimately a test
of survival as Mark Chelmsley and Mr. Maxwell are transformed by A Week
in the Woods. (New
Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
Booktalk #2
Eleven year old Mark moves
to a small town in New Hampshire. He is instantly labeled lazy by his science
teacher, Mr. Maxwell. Mark doesn’t worry about Mr. Maxwell. This
is just a temporary stay while his family gets settled. Yet Mark
slowly starts to make friends and is looking forward to the school camping
trip. The first night Mark gets in trouble and is told he will have to
go home. Mark runs away and Mr. Maxwell goes after him. Yet the minutes
they are gone turn to hours and they both become lost. How will they survive
in the cold mountains and what discoveries will they make? Read Andrew
Clements A Week in the Woods to find out. (Catherine Ryan, c_ryan16@yahoo.com)
Booktalk #3
Clements, Andrew. A
WEEK IN THE WOODS
Mark is angry about his family’s
move to New Hampshire. He acts bored and disinterested in class and angers
his science teacher, Bill Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell decides that someone should
teach this young man a lesson and the two square off in a test of wills.
Eventually, Mark must use his outdoor skills to survive while being pursued
through the woods. Reader fans of Paulsen and Hobbs will enjoy this adventure
novel. (Sunshine
State Young Reader’s Award Program, 2004-2005) |
