Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights

by Gary Paulsen, Luke Daniels (Read by)

Overview

Carley would rather have been anywhere but here: a town deep in Minnesota’s farm country, with nothing plentiful except poverty. Still, staying with his Uncle David and his family was better than reform school – which was where Carley was heading. Something was eating away at him, making him do crazy things. No one could understand why – least of all Carley himself. But then David took Carley to his blacksmith forge. And under the grim nights and days of the Minnesota fall, under the glow of hot steel, and the most exhausting work he had ever known, Carley began to see a way to shape his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531879952
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	10/11/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

Three-time Newbery-winning author Gary Paulsen, hailed as "one of the best-loved writers alive" by the New York Times, divides his time between his ranch in New Mexico, a sailboat on the Pacific Ocean, and his dog-kennel in Alaska. He's written over 200 books for young people, stories that have been embraced by readers of all ages.

Editorial Reviews

"Paulsen adds another affecting and realistic title to his pantheon of stories about outsiders learning how to become more positive forces in the world . . . it belongs in every historical fiction collection."—School Library Journal

"A disturbed 14-year-old gains new perspectives while staying with his uncle in a Minnesota farm community in the 1940s, in this novel by the Newbery Honor author."—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Gr 5–8—Gary Paulsen adds another affecting and realistic title to his pantheon of stories about outsiders learning how to become more positive forces in the world. Carley, 14, is always getting into trouble. His frustrated parents send him to live on his Uncle David's farm in rural Minnesota. Initially, Carley has nothing but contempt for the country farm—the poverty, his family's foreign accents, and their "backwards" ways. However, his uncle teaches him to be a blacksmith and imparts important life lessons that show Carley that he can lead a better life. Luke Daniels's superb narration elevates Paulsen's text (Dutton, 1983). His Norwegian accent in voicing David is mesmerizing, and he easily conveys Carley's anger and lack of forethought as well as his eventual turnaround. Although this is one of the author's more laid back coming-of-age stories, it belongs in every historical fiction collection.—B. Allison Gray, Goleta Library, CA

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