Puffin Modern Classics Rascal, (Paperback)

from fingerpost

Although excellent, this one seemed an odd selection for a Newbery Honor. Rascal is a memoir, not a novel. It is also more of a paean to nature and an old fashioned rustic way of life than it is a story. The writing is beautiful in a poetic way. It's not that today's 12-year-old wouldn't understa...

from labfs39

Things are pretty quiet in rural Wisconsin in 1917, unless, that is, you are eleven-year-old Sterling North. An avid naturalist, Sterling raises a variety of unusual pets: Poe, the crow, two skunks, a drooling St. Bernard named Wowzer, and assorted cats. His inseparable best friend, though, is Ra...

from ecugary

Sterling North does an outstanding job of making the reader feel like they are right there. The imagery and sensory detail included in this book will keep every reader turning pages. This book would be a great way to introduce literary devices to students. Students can discuss terms such as senso...

from bell7

Sterling North recalls the year of 1918-19 when he raised a raccoon kit called Rascal at the age of 11. In many ways it was a simpler time, and despite the fact that his brother was away at war and his mother had died four years previous, the story has more than a touch of nostalgia as Sterling p...

from brett28332833

Rascal is such an amazing book, at the beginning it's adventurous at the middle it's funny and at the end it's sad! Maureen Fergus is like a diamond you have to expose her to the world then let her shine!