The winter room
by Gary Paulsen
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A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes. Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter," and what happens next is terrible--then wonderful.
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Children's fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Lumber and lumbering, fiction, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Norwegian Americans, Farm life, Lumber and lumbering, Logging, Lumbering, Newbery Honor, Farm life, fiction, Norwegians, united states, fiction, Large type books, Newbery Medal, JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life, JUVENILE FICTION / Short Stories, Lumber trade, award:Newbery_awardPlaces
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Orchard Books, 1989.
"A Yearling book."
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"If books could be more, could show more, could own more, this book would have smells....It would have the smells of old farms; the sweet smell of new-mown hay as it falls off the oiled sickle blade when the horses pull the mower through the field, and the sour smell of manure steaming in a winter barn."
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A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
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