Dogsong

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Summary: I thought it was boring but it had its moments.
Review: I thought this book was a little boring but at some parts of the book it got very intense and good. It is about a 14-year-old boy named Russel and he is trying to find his "song" of homself. His very good old friend Oogruk tell him that he needs to find his song. Oogruk gives Russel all he needs to go find his song. Oogruk give him a little food, weapons and the dogs to pull him on the sled. Russel starts outon his journey and decides to go back to see Oogruk. But when he returns he is sad to see that he is dead. On the way throughout his journey his has some obstacles. he has to kill a polar bear to feed himself and the dogs, he had to rescue a pregnant women and they found themselves on a ice pond and a peice broke off but they managed to save themselves. I read this book it sounded adventures and it was. I recemend this book to a person who loves an adventure. This is a great book.

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Summary: Im dissapionted that I can't rate this book with 0 stars.
Review: Maybe its just me, but i really didn't care for this book. Very very boring. The whole book is about eating fat and keeping a lamp lit with the fat.

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Summary: The book was very exciting
Review: I think Dogsong was a good book because it was very surprising on what the charactors did next. Gary Paulson described the snow and the cold so well I got goose bumps. He described the dogs and the sled so good I felt as if I was in command of the dogs and racing them. I would recemend it to a person who loves animals.

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Summary: The riveting story of a boy trying to find his real self
Review: Dogsong, the story of Russel Susskit, is a really great book because you get to experience what it's really like to drive a dog sled team. The plot is very well created and the characters seem like you already know them. This is another of Gary Paulsen's great books.

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Summary: Hard at first but then got the point
Review: I think this book was hard to understand at first but then it was all starting to make sense. Overall I think it was a good story, but definitely not a commedy.

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Summary: A good begining
Review: We have only begun to read this book but so far it is interesting! The eating of raw meat and eyeballs was GROSS! --Holly and Jessi

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Summary: An eskimo boy decides to live the old ways.My favorite book!
Review: An old man in the village encourages a boy to go out and live the old ways. He gives him clothes and equipment, which the boy uses. The old man dies, and the boy is frightened and alone. Gradually, he learns the old ways and how to survive in the wilderness, and never wants to go back to the modern ways. A really fantastic book!

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Summary: Dogsong, an excellent Book
Review: I read this book a while ago and found it very easy to read with a very good plot. In this book Gary Paulsen describes the life and a trek of a young Eskimo. In the book the boy braves the alaskan winter and learns to love the dogs that he runs with. Overall it is good reading matterial for all age

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Summary: I thought it was boring but it had its moments.
Review: I thought this book was a little boring but at some parts of the book it got very intense and good. It is about a 14-year-old boy named Russel and he is trying to find his "song" of homself. His very good old friend Oogruk tell him that he needs to find his song. Oogruk gives Russel all he needs to go find his song. Oogruk give him a little food, weapons and the dogs to pull him on the sled. Russel starts outon his journey and decides to go back to see Oogruk. But when he returns he is sad to see that he is dead. On the way throughout his journey his has some obstacles. he has to kill a polar bear to feed himself and the dogs, he had to rescue a pregnant women and they found themselves on a ice pond and a peice broke off but they managed to save themselves. I read this book it sounded adventures and it was. I recemend this book to a person who loves an adventure. This is a great book.

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Summary: Dog Song book review by Tim
Review: This is a realistic story set in the far north, both in an Eskimo village, and in the wild tundra. The story is about an Eskimo boy who has a vague sense of discontent. His father recommends that he go visit with an old Eskimo man, who is steeped in the "old" ways. Russel, the boy, ends up living with the old Eskimo man, learning the old ways, and dropping out of school. No one seems to mind because he is still learning valuable things. Eventually, the old man goes out on the ice to die, but first tells Russel to head to the Far North for about one year, to "find himself." He is alone most of that time, but toward the end, meets up with an Eskimo girl, who he saves. The book implies that in the future, she will be his wife. This is a coming-of-age story dealing with a boy's feelings about becoming competent as a man, and having confidence in his own abilities.

This author is well-aquainted with both modern and traditional Eskimo life, and really shows the reader both how it is now, and how it used to be. I am a teacher, and I recommend this book for anyone interested in Eskimo life, realistic stories of boy-against nature, or hunting and fishing activities. The boy's thoughts and feelings would make the book mostly of interest to age 12, to adult. Parts of this book reminded me of the book I read in 8th grade, back in the late 60's, entitled, "Nanook of the North," (now apparently out of print) except that Nanook was an adult, and this story is about a teenaged boy.