The winter room
by Gary Paulsen
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Eleven-year-old Eldon, 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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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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Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Orchard Books, 1989.
Includes "After Words": bonus interview with author, information, and interactivity inside.
"After Words guide by Lisa Ann Sandell."
Cover illustration by Larry Rostant.
"Apple signature."
Newbery honor book, 1990.
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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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