Woods Runner - Gary Paulsen
Category: Teen & Young Adult
Tags: Teen & Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Awards: Best Fiction for Young Adults Release date: January 12, 2010 Duration: 03:42:08, 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. Samuels 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., With a smoky voice redolent of musket fire, Danny Campbell recounts the fictional story of Samuel, a teen caught in the War for Indepe
