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* IRA Teachers' Choices
* NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
* Charlotte Award
* Sequoyah Children's Book Award
* Florida Sunshine State Book Award
* Rhode Island Teen Book Award
* Kentucky Bluegrass Award
* South Carolina Children's Book Award


Newbery 수상작인 "Hatchet," "Dogsong," "The Winter Room"을 비롯 다수의 뛰어난 아동문학소설을 저술한 Gary Pausen의 대표작중 하나입니다.

18세기, 미국이 아직 영국의 식민지 지배를 받고 있을 때, 도시와 멀리 떨어진 외딴 숲 속에서 부모와 함께 살고 있던 13세 소년 새뮤얼은 뜻하지 않게 미국 독립전쟁의 소용돌이에 휘말리면서 겪게 되는 흥미진진한 이야기입니다. 잔인한 영국군에게 잡혀간 부모를 구출하기 위해 새뮤얼은 숲 속에서 살면서 터득했던 다양한 생존 및 추적기술을 사용하면서 영국군의 흔적을 뒤쫓아갑니다. 그 과정에서 전쟁의 참혹함을 깨닫게 되고, 미국의 독립을 위해 싸우는 새로운 동지들도 사귀게 됩니다. 부모가 잡혀간 경로를 추적하면서 결국은 당시 영국군의 본부가 있던 뉴욕에 도착하게 되고...






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Paperback: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 037585908X
ISBN-13: 978-0375859083
책 크기: 20.7 cm x 14 cm



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Book Description
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.
But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel’s parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters, New York City.


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Steering his narrative through an unsentimentalized and deglorified depiction of the American Revolution, Paulsen’s latest work of historical fiction provides a stark glimpse of just how awful the war really was for those who suffered through it. Though his parents are city folk trying to hack out a life on the frontier in Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Samuel is entirely at home in the woodland wilderness that surrounds their little settlement. Soon after word arrives of the uprising in Concord and Lexington, Samuel returns home from a jaunt in the forest to find his home burned down, the neighbors slaughtered, and his parents missing. Samuel tracks his captured parents through the countryside to British-held New York, encountering scalping bands of Iroquois, pillaging squads of mercenary Hessians, and a few hardy, helpful rebels along the way. Paulsen alternates chapters of Samuel’s story with historical notes that illuminate the sobering realities of the Revolution and add some context not found in most history books. Paulsen’s rewarding and fast-paced novel offers an honest assessment of heroism writ both small and large. Grades 6-9. --Ian Chipman


Kirkus Reviews *Starred Review*
"A superb reflection on the nature of war."