Pub Date: September 24, 1990
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 86017412
Lexile Code: 0780
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.30" H x 7.61" L x 5.15" W ( 0.25 lbs) 96 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Foxes | Lifestyles | Farm Life and Ranch Life | Social Themes | Values and Virtues | Readers | Intermediate | Marine Life | Violence | Family | Multigenerational | Science and Nature | Environment | Parents
Description: A brief but effective story about a young boy's first experience with the brutality of small-game trapping. "The message in this short novel is unmistakable, the story line directand well-plotted, with fast action and authentic emotions".--Kirkus Reviews.
Brief description:
James Cross Giblin (1933-2016) was the author of more than twenty critically acclaimed books for young people. His book The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler received the Robert F. Sibert Award for Informational Books.
Review Quotes:
"Stark pencil drawings enhance the dramatic tension created by the text, creating a true marriage between text and illustration." School Library Journal