Owen Foote, Frontiersman

by Stephanie Greene, Martha Weston (Illustrator)

Overview

Wearing his coonskin cap, carrying his book about animal tracks, and armed with a jar of red pepper flakes in case he meets a bear or a mountain lion, Owen feels like a pioneer when he goes into the woods with his best friend, Joseph. But there are other kinds of varmints in the wilderness-not bears and mountain lions, but two big kids who have nothing better to do than trash a treehouse fort. It's up to Owen and Joseph to stop them, and so, following in the footsteps of his hero, Daniel Boone, Owen makes the forest his teacher. Using all the woodland lore at his disposal, Owen comes up with new identities for himself and Joseph-Wolverine and Badger-and a plan to drive out the intruders and reclaim their kingdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618246205
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/23/2002
Series:	Owen Foots (Paperback)
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x (d)
Lexile:	460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Stephanie Greene is the author of many books for young readers, including the popular Owen Foote books. Ms. Greene lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. Her website is www.stephaniegreenebooks.com.

Martha Weston was the author and illustrator of two charming picture books about Tuck, as well as the illustrator of Clarion's successful Owen Foote books by Stephanie Greene. Martha Weston died in 2003.

Table of Contents

1	This Is My Kingdom!	1
2	It's Mine	14
3	Act Brave and You Are Brave	26
4	Nope, Can't Be Here	40
5	The Most Important Thing in the World	51
6	This Is Still My Kingdom!	62
7	Spencer and Jake Gold, This Is Owen Foote	73
8	It's a Bear	81

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Thanks to the generosity of his neighbor Mrs. Gold, who owns the woods near Owen's house, Owen and his best friend Joseph have a great treehouse fort, complete with a Weapons Wall (seven sharp sticks) and an Art Wall (featuring the quieter Joseph's nature poem: "Bulb. Fighting dirt, worms, rodents, and rocks, to be a flower"). But now Mrs. Gold's odious grandsons Jake and Spencer have come to visit and have taken over the fort, intending to wreck it. As Owen and Joseph plot to regain their "kingdom," all the strengths of this series come to the fore: real-boy characters with an appealingly loyal friendship, a good balance of narrative and dialogue, and an honestly childlike sense of the way the world works.
Horn Book

"Thanks to the generosity of his neighbor Mrs. Gold, who owns the woods near Owen's house, Owen and his best friend Joseph have a great treehouse fort, complete with a Weapons Wall (seven sharp sticks) and an Art Wall (featuring the quieter Joseph's nature poem: "Bulb. Fighting dirt, worms, rodents, and rocks, to be a flower"). But now Mrs. Gold's odious grandsons Jake and Spencer have come to visit and have taken over the fort, intending to wreck it. As Owen and Joseph plot to regain their "kingdom," all the strengths of this series come to the fore: real-boy characters with an appealingly loyal friendship, a good balance of narrative and dialogue, and an honestly childlike sense of the way the world works." Horn Book, Starred

Editorial Reviews

Thanks to the generosity of his neighbor Mrs. Gold, who owns the woods near Owen's house, Owen and his best friend Joseph have a great treehouse fort, complete with a Weapons Wall (seven sharp sticks) and an Art Wall (featuring the quieter Joseph's nature poem: "Bulb. Fighting dirt, worms, rodents, and rocks, to be a flower"). But now Mrs. Gold's odious grandsons Jake and Spencer have come to visit and have taken over the fort, intending to wreck it. As Owen and Joseph plot to regain their "kingdom," all the strengths of this series come to the fore: real-boy characters with an appealingly loyal friendship, a good balance of narrative and dialogue, and an honestly childlike sense of the way the world works.
Horn Book

"Thanks to the generosity of his neighbor Mrs. Gold, who owns the woods near Owen's house, Owen and his best friend Joseph have a great treehouse fort, complete with a Weapons Wall (seven sharp sticks) and an Art Wall (featuring the quieter Joseph's nature poem: "Bulb. Fighting dirt, worms, rodents, and rocks, to be a flower"). But now Mrs. Gold's odious grandsons Jake and Spencer have come to visit and have taken over the fort, intending to wreck it. As Owen and Joseph plot to regain their "kingdom," all the strengths of this series come to the fore: real-boy characters with an appealingly loyal friendship, a good balance of narrative and dialogue, and an honestly childlike sense of the way the world works." Horn Book, Starred —

From the Publisher

(Primary, Intermediate)
Thanks to the generosity of his neighbor Mrs. Gold, who owns the woods near Owen's house, Owen and his best friend Joseph have a great treehouse fort, complete with a Weapons Wall (seven sharp sticks) and an Art Wall (featuring the quieter Joseph's nature poem: "Bulb. Fighting dirt, worms, rodents, and rocks, to be a flower"). But now Mrs. Gold's odious grandsons Jake and Spencer have come to visit and have taken over the fort, intending to wreck it. As Owen and Joseph plot to regain their "kingdom," all the strengths of this series come to the fore: real-boy characters with an appealingly loyal friendship, a good balance of narrative and dialogue, and an honestly childlike sense of the way the world works. r.s.

Horn Book

Gr 2-4-Following in the footsteps of their hero, Daniel Boone, two modern boys use ingenuity, wilderness know-how, and newfound nerve to protect their tree fort. A funny, fast-paced adventure. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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