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Summary: The Beet Fields
Review: A good book but alittle out of my league, I'm more into suspence thrillers like "JAWS". I accually was reading this for a school project. This book has Gary Paulsen written all over it, although it was alittle differant from some of his other books (that I ended up reading) you can still reconize hie style. Reading this type of book for pretty much the first time, I enjoyed it. I did read "Hatchet" and "Brian's Winter" but I did'nt like them as much. The sequal to this book does sound interesting. I really liked the way
that Paulsen reffured to the main charactor as "The Boy" rather than some everyday name. With the content in this book I would not recomend it for readers under 13 years of age.
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Summary: Finding a Home
Review: A Review by ClintThis book is about a boy with a troubled home life so he decides to take a chance and help himself. He finds many friends along the North Dakota prairies that give hope but his old life continues to trouble him. He has troubles with the law, girls and again his former life. This book seems somewhat real but is still fictional. It fits right in with the rest of the books that you may have read about being lost in this world. The characters in the book are seemingly real almost all are hard working farm hands or illegal Mexicans and some are alcoholics. The book does not have a ton of action but it kept me wanting to know more. I suggest that anyone who has ever read a Gay Paulsen book and liked it read this book. I personally think this book is one of the top 15 books I've ever read.
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Summary: Beat Fields
Review: Beat Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer by Gary Paulsen is an exciting story about a teenage boy who runs away from his home. Beatfields takes place in the 1950's in North Dakota. Throughout the book, the boy is constantly on the run. He learns a lot from the people he meets and works for.
I enjoyed this book because something new and exiteing is always happening! I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys Gary Paulsen's writing.
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Summary: Another Hit
Review: Beet Fields was so real. I enjoy young adult reading and wish more was available to students. I could just imagine climbing the rafters in the barn to grab and break the necks of those nourishing pigeons. I'm glad that Paulsen had the field workers to show him what true family was like.
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Summary: Paulsen's Coming of Age
Review: Coupling lyrical style of Sweet Dirt, Clabbered Grass with the brutal honesty of Eastern Sun Winter Moon, Gary Paulsen has crafted his coming of age story. The frustration, sweetness and horror he finds his sixteenth summer after he runs away from drunken parents are tempered by his developing sense of his manhood. While Soldier's Heart may be his best fiction, this is his best work. Has he considered poetry?
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Summary: Finding a Home
Review: David is a 16 year old boy who grows to be a man over one summer. He runs from home and from his mother, a drunk. He finds work on a few beet fields and makes Mexican friends. Then he ventures tobe a carny. He finds his true self and his true manhood. I liked the book because I can relate to David. I liked the way the book flows. David is a good character choice for the Beet Fields.
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Summary: The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
Review: David is a 16 year old boy who grows to be a man over one summer. He runs from home and from his mother, a drunk. He finds work on a few beet fields and makes Mexican friends. Then he ventures tobe a carny. He finds his true self and his true manhood. I liked the book because I can relate to David. I liked the way the book flows. David is a good character choice for the Beet Fields.
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Summary: detailed sexual content
Review: Gary Paulsen is a talented author who has written many books for young readers to enjoy. However, I feel that this book is too explicit in the detailing of the strip show and the sex with Ruby to be placed in a young adult reading catagory. Books that are recommended as young adult should be acceptable reading choices for ages ten and up; my ten year old son has read two of Gary Poulsen's other "young adult level" books so far, they were introduced to his fourth grade class at school from his teacher. The material in "Beet Fields" is not at all appropriate for this age group and parents of youth need to be made aware of the contents of this book. Yes, the cover does show that it is about a summer of a sixteen year old; however, young Gary Poulsen fans will want to read everything by this author and as a parent I think other parents need to be made aware of the sexual content of this particular book, regardless of the age of their children.
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Summary: A memorable memoir
Review: Gary Paulsen's latest installment in his collection of memoirs is a glimpse into his sixteenth summer, when he left his drunken parents to pursue life on his own. He takes work as a laborer in the beet fields, where he befriends Mexican workers and learns to hunt pigeons with his bare hands, and later does farm work, joins the crew of a traveling carnival, and learns about lust and love from an older, much more experienced woman. While this isn't a book for younger readers, it will most definitely find an audience with teenagers who are familiar with Paulsen's writing and yearn to know more about his hardships and adventures when he was their age. Readers who enjoyed Hatchet and its sequels will find that the details of Brian's survival in the wilderness find an equally appealing match in the stories of Paulsen's own survival on the road in The Beet Fields.
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Summary: A boy becomes a man!
Review: I had to read "The beet fields" for school (for our book talk in english). I think Gary Paulsen book's are sometimes boring. It's a typical story about a boy who becomes a man. On his way he has to make a lot of hard decisions and he learns a lot about different characters of people. I don't like such books. I prefer books with a historic background. Daniela Kammerländer!
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