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Summary: Good, mysterious plot.
Review: The book that I just read was called Canyons. It was by Gary Paulson. It is a moderately good book and great for children. In a scale from one to ten I would give it a seven. It's about a boy who goes camping with his mom, his neighbour and some kids from his neighbour's church group. They went on quite a long car ride. Then they started to hike into the canyon to find a good spot to camp. They got there and then they set up camp. After a few hours they went to bed. Brennan, the boy, slept a ways away from everyone else, by a few big rocks. He fell asleep and then he felt something digging into his back. He pulled it out of the ground and realized that it was a skull. Then the book goes on to tell about what Brennan finds out about the skull. The whole book is based on Brennan and the skull. Later on Brennan was trying to get more information about skull. It also went on to tell what happened between Brennan and the skull. All and all I think it was a good book, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a book with a good, mysterious plot.
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Summary: Canyons
Review: The novel, Canyons by Gary Paulsen is one of the best novels I've ever read. The beginning is rather strange because the author switches between two story lines and two characters in each chapter. One chapter will be about an American boy, Brennan Cole, then the next one tells about an Apache boy, Coyote Runs. Until the reader realizes this, it is a little confusing because Brennan is living in the present and Coyote Runs lived in the past. This writing style made me wonder what the two could possibly have in common. Not too far into the book, though, the story becomes very clear. As the book begins, Coyote Runs is searching for his manhood. He is anxious to take part in his first raid, hoping that the success will make him worthy of being considered a man and not a boy anymore. The raid starts out very well but in later chapters it turns sour and Coyote Runs is killed. The murder occurs in a savage way near Dog Canyon. As the life of Brennan Cole is introduced into the book, the reader eventually sees how the two lives are joined. Brennan takes a camping trip to Dog Canyon with his mother, her boyfriend, Bill, and some youth from Bill's church. While trying to get some relief from the other campers, Brennan goes to sleep in a secluded place away from them. When he wakes up, Brennan realizes he is lying on top of a skull, which he secretly takes home with him. It is during this night that the excitement and eerie feelings begin. The rest of the book leaves the reader in complete suspense as Brennan searches for answers to his many questions concerning the skull and his obsession with it. The way the author, Gary Paulsen tells the story, it makes the idea of the "Indian spirit" very believable. The words he uses and the way he repeats them, made me feel like I was running with the skull myself, just like Brennan Cole. The novel, Canyons is a very exciting, mysterious adventure that I would recommend to any reader.
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Summary: Canyons by Paulsen, November 26, 2000
Review: The novel, Canyons by Gary Paulsen is one of the best novels I've ever read. The beginning is rather strange because the author switches between two story lines and two characters in each chapter. One chapter will be about an American boy, Brennan Cole, then the next one tells about an Apache boy, Coyote Runs. Until the reader realizes this, it is a little confusing because Brennan is living in the present and Coyote Runs lived in the past. This writing style made me wonder what the two could possibly have in common. Not too far into the book, though, the story becomes very clear. As the book begins, Coyote Runs is searching for his manhood. He is anxious to take part in his first raid, hoping that the success will make him worthy of being considered a man and not a boy anymore. The raid starts out very well but in later chapters it turns sour and Coyote Runs is killed. The murder occurs in a savage way near Dog Canyon. As the life of Brennan Cole is introduced into the book, the reader eventually sees how the two lives are joined. Brennan takes a camping trip to Dog Canyon with his mother, her boyfriend, Bill, and some youth from Bill's church. While trying to get some relief from the other campers, Brennan goes to sleep in a secluded place away from them. When he wakes up, Brennan realizes he is lying on top of a skull, which he secretly takes home with him. It is during this night that the excitement and eerie feelings begin. The rest of the book leaves the reader in complete suspense as Brennan searches for answers to his many questions concerning the skull and his obsession with it. The way the author, Gary Paulsen tells the story, it makes the idea of the "Indian spirit" very believable. The words he uses and the way he repeats them, made me feel like I was running with the skull myself, just like Brennan Cole. The novel, Canyons is a very exciting, mysterious adventure that I would recommend to any reader.
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Summary: Story line is great, but the writing isn't.
Review: This book has a fascinating story line which lets the reader view the parallel lives of two 14-year-olds from very different times. However, the writing itself is not up to what the author did in "The Monument." Sentences are sometimes too long and rambling, other times too short. Also, the main character manages to run about 70 miles across the desert in a day and a half... something that seems not very realistic, at least to this reader.
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Summary: Give thise book a chance, and it will pull you in!
Review: This book is about an Apache boy who was on his way in becoming a man, but was killed. About 100 years later, a boy around his own age named Brennan was camping in the same canyon, where he was killed. The Indian spirit then begins to hount Brennan, and he becomes obsessed in finding out what happend to the Apache boy. In the prosses they become freinds and they both help each other out. I think thise was a good book. It kept me in suspence, and it made me just want to keep reading on. Because of how it wouldn't tell exactly how the boy was exactly killed at first. This is a good book if you like susspence, and are interested in how a relationship was formed between two boys about 100 years apart.
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Summary: This book was subserviant to my book needs.
Review: This book was Da Bomb!. If you want a book with suspense and drama read Canyons. This book was about a boy named Brennan and a skull he found when he was on a camping trip. In the first part it has double life chapters. In other words, it had one chapter with Brennan and one chapter on an apache boy named Coyote Runs. This book seemed boring at first, In the beginning the author introduce the characters, but after that there doesn't seem to be enough action,but when you get into it the book gets more interesting, for instance, get's to the point were four or five chapters later you get into the book more easily, because it tells about coyote Runs
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Summary: very good
Review: This book was really good. If you like adventure books you should read this. Right from the begining I was hooked and never got bored. I had to read this for a school project and I was really glad I did.
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Summary: An adventurous story, recommended for all readers
Review: This book was very interesting to read, and was well-written. I recommend this for all readers. This is about a 14- year old Apache Indian buy in an Indian raid, and dies. His name was Coyote Runs. Coyote Runs' spirit is within the young boy, and tells him how to regain the spirits. Defidently worth reading!
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Summary: A very catchy book that you could spend hours just enfulging
Review: This book wasn't so excellent in the beginning, but got better in the end. It was an exciting, catching book that, once I got started, I couldn't stop! I had read it in the very same morning that I started! Although, you musn't get fooled by the beginning.
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Summary: Chanel's Opinion
Review: This is a fairly decent book. It is about two boys but the author hardly talks bout Coyote Runs. In this story it talks about Brennon going camping up in the Canyons. It is a decent part of the book but it really doesn't give any giggles or smiles. It's not romantic or mysterious its just a typical plain story. Towards the end it kind of jump to excitment but that's the only reason I give it a won because it starts to have some stuff that gets you interesting in the book. Brennon goes off and sleeps away from he people he was camping with and walks up sleeping on Coyote Run's skull. He got murdered during a raid that he always had wanted because he always wanted to be mroe manly. This is my opinion and I dont know how other readers would judge this book so I just wanted to give the future readers a breif descripition of the book. Thank You Very Much and Stay True!
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