Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple
 

Main Page
Author List
Title List
New This Month
Interest Level
Subject List
FAQ's
Contributors
Booktalking Tips
Book Review Sources
Reading lists
Awards
Nancy Keane's Children's Website
nancy@nancykeane.com
 
Paulsen, Gary.
THE HAYMEADOW
New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1994
IL 5-8, RL 6.9
ISBN 0440409233
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews
The Old Man road out here with nothing but a gun and took all of this land.  He began herding the sheep when he was just a boy, so I know I can do it too.  Or at least I hope that I can.  I’ve always wanted to be like him.  Survive on nothing but what the land has to offer.  Be in charge.  But now I have no choice about it with Tink sick and Cawley needed at the farm, I’ll have to manage on my own until Dad comes to help bring the sheep home.  Nothing could have prepared me for the openness, the wandering sheep, and nature’s fury.  I wonder why Dad never told me to expect all of that?  I guess that would have required him to talk to me and he doesn’t do much of that since Mom died.  How many sheep will I lose?  Will I make it the three months?  (Elizabeth Ashley, ecalisusc@yahoo.com,  Student, USC, Columbia, SC)
SUBJECTS:     Ranch life -- Fiction.
                          Sheep -- Fiction.
                          Self-reliance -- Fiction.
                          Wyoming -- Fiction.
                          Coming of age -- Fiction.

© 

Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.