Wild Boy - Hardcover

Collier, James Lincoln

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761451269 ISBN 13: 9780761451266

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Childrens Books, 2002

Synopsis

In a rousing coming-of-age story, twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains after striking his father in a fit of rage.

About this title

About the Author:

James Lincoln Collier is a Marshall Cavendish author.

From Booklist:

Gr. 5-8. After an argument in which he takes a swing at his father with an axe handle and knocks him out, 12-year-old Jesse leaves his prairie town and heads to the hills. He tries to live as a mountain man but is untutored in wilderness survival. Fortunately, an experienced man teaches Jesse how to live in the woods and also functions as a sort of nineteenth-century anger-management therapist. Gradually, Jesse recovers lost memories and comes to realize why his mother abandoned the family several years earlier. There's also plenty of action in a bear hunt and in confrontations with a dangerous and mentally unstable man. Eventually, Jesse decides to give up mountain life, and he returns home a more mature and self-aware person. Unlike most historical novels, this lacks any sense of time and place, and some readers may have a hard time plowing through Jesse's twangy, first-person narration. Still, the gradually unfolded truth of Jesse's past and the story's moments of excitement can keep the pages turning. Todd Morning
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761451269
• ISBN 13: 9780761451266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176