The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
Gary Paulsen$10.20
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For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly.
He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 02/08/2011
ISBN: 9780375873058
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 42979 / Beet Fields: A Sixteenth Summer
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5
He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 02/08/2011
ISBN: 9780375873058
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 42979 / Beet Fields: A Sixteenth Summer
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5