- Fiction, Farm life, Cousins, Boys
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
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Classical in form, earnest, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Gary Paulsen
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Harcourt, Yearling Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330336956
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“Meeting Harris would never have happened were it not for liberal quantities of Schlitz and Four Roses.”
Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.[ **Source**: [Gary Paulsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen) on Wikipedia
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