| Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights Contributor(s): Paulsen, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140342044 ISBN-13: 9780140342048 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1989 Annotation: Carley would rather be anywhere that in this poverty-stricken Minnesota farm town. Still, staying with his Uncle David's family is better than reform school--which is where Carley was headed. Paulsen is the award-winning author of Hatchet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Country Life |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89033408 |
| Lexile Measure: 950 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5" W x 7.84" (0.21 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Self-Esteem |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 9640 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paulsen (a Newbery Honor author) adds another affecting and realistic title to his pantheon of stories about outsiders learning how to become more positive forces in the world.--SLJ From the city Carley learned rage--can the country bring him peace? Carley would rather be anywhere but here: a town deep in Minnesota's farm country, with nothing plentiful except poverty. Still, staying with his uncle David and his family is better than reform school--which was where Carley was heading. Something was eating away at him, making him do crazy, violent things. No one could understand why--least of all Carley himself. But then David takes Carley to his blacksmith forge. And under the grim nights and days of the Minnesota fall, under the glow of hot steel, and the most exhausting work he has ever known, Carley begins to see a way to shape his life. "A beautiful written message of hope."--International Checkpoint |