Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered

by Gary Paulsen

Overview

A young boy spends his tenth summer on his aunt and uncle’s farm, where he is constantly involved in crazy escapades with his cousin Harris. “On the Larson farm, readers will experience hearts as large as farmers’ appetites, humor as broad as the country landscape and adventures as wild as boyhood imaginations. All this adds up to a hearty helping of old-fashioned, rip-roaring entertainment.”—Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152058807
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	131,185
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

GARY PAULSEN (1939 - 2021) wrote nearly two hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Books Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. 

Editorial Reviews

"Truly one of Paulsen's best."—Booklist (starred review)

"Readers will experience hearts as large as farmers' appetites, humor as broad as the country landscape and adventures as wild as boyhood imaginations."
—Publishers Weekly —

From the Publisher

At first, Harris was not a friend of choice. In fact, Harris wasn't a friend at all: the first-person narrator was dumped on this distant cousin's family as part of "a kind of rotation...of many uncles and shirttail relatives." To a city boy, this unruly farmer's son doesn't seem exactly respectable. For starters, he goes mouse hunting, enthusiastically wrestles 300-pound pigs, fights chickens, and rides a motorized bike. Clearly, Harris is no moral guide, but his mischievous ways do provide a hardscrabble education for a troubled young boy finding his way.