Wild boy
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792798163 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0792798163 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital. - Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : AudioGO, 2013.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kirby Heyborne. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on publisher supplied image on web page (viewed Apr. 9, 2013) |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Mountain life -- Fiction Mountain life -- Juvenile fiction JUVENILE FICTION / General |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Children's audiobooks. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
In a rousing coming-of-age story, twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains after striking his father in a fit of rage. Book available. - Findaway World Llc
In this rousing coming-of-age story set on the American frontier, one ornery twelve-year-old has a lot to learn if heâs to survive his new life as a mountain man. Having run away after hitting Pa in a bout of rage, Jesse decides to fend for himself. Too much uncontrollable anger and inexplicable emotion since Ma went away have taken their toll. All he wants now is to be left alone. At first, every day on the mountain is a struggle. Beset by hunger and cold, fear and loneliness, Jesse stubbornly and defiantly refuses to concede defeat. Gradually, he learns to hunt, to skin and cure animal pelts, to build a cabin ⦠all skills necessary to life in the wilderness. He takes on a mad mountaineer and even helps kill a bear. In so doing, Jesse slowly gains confidence and insight beyond his years. âI was watching me turn myself into a mountain man.â An action-packed adventure proves a provocative voyage of self-discovery as one young boy observes the best and worst in nature, people, and himself.