Guests

by Michael Dorris and Scholastic Inc.

Book Overview

Moss is frustrated. His father has invited outsiders who dress in strange clothes and speak an odd language to the village's special harvest meal - and no one but Moss seems to care how that will change the way things have always been. No matter whom he talks to, no matter what he says, people just smile and tell him, Someday you'll understand why. Impatient for answers, Moss impulsively goes into the forest alone for the first time, hoping to find...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078680047X
• ISBN13: 9780786800476
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Guests: A book reveiw

Bray Ferguson May 27, 2003Community 7-213GuestsGuests by Michael Dorris, was intriguing and suspenseful. As the authors explains the beautiful woodlands in the Northeast, he revisits his childhood by explaining to the reader that he, himself grew-up in an Indian tribe and fell in love, as did the boy, Moss. He finds a girl and usually is scarred to talk to girls, but no, not this time, he smiles back. He tries to show his tribe and himself that anything is possible, just do everything you can. Moss keeps trying and he soon finds that in life nothing comes easily. Everyone tries to make as simple and sweet as possible, but as Moss tries to do exactly that, he finds himself getting much more out of it, LOVE! This book was both adventurous, but still like a love story. As he was walking through the forest one day, thinking about life, he came across a magical porcupine. He started talking to him, and Moss was amazed. The magical lady porcupine told him the most important thing he needed to hear, "you are who you are, an no one can tell you the truth about that." I think everyone at one time needs to hear that. Ii wish we all had magical porcupines. Moss is a normal boy, he gets into trouble a little to easily, but he always gets out of it. He enjoys walking in the woods and talking to the magical porcupine, he wants to be understood, and eventually, he is. I enjoyed the book, but some chapters were hard to get through. To find out what happens to Moss, his girlfriend, and the magical porcupine, read the book Guests by Michael Dorris.

Guests

Guests Guests, by Michael Dorris was an adventurous, mysterious, exciting, and suspenseful book. When the author sets the tome in the beginning he describes the enchanting life of a young Native American searching for is position in life. As the story goes on he meets someone. "You're a girl" Moss the main character once said along with "Usually if a girl smiled at me I would laugh, or blush, but not his time, this time I smiled back" With these statements he shows the reader what love really is.Answers to lives questions such as "Moss, what do you think beauty is" are hard to answer like that. In the forest when Moss meets a mysterious porcupine the author explains without putting it in words that no one can answer your life questions, but they can only help you.This book was both adventurous and romantic. Moss had a very brave soul, or did he? When he walked into the forest he walked in without anything, not even a knife. You could infer he was scared and nervous because he stated, "I'm going with nothing, I said braver then I felt" With that said you could sense something bad was going to happen.Moss the main character of this book was a dare devil at times but was also a scared at times too. Trouble, the girl Moss meets was definite a tomboy. She once stated, " Would you want to be a girl?" Explaining to Moss tat being a girl was NOT one of her favorite parts of life.As Michael Dorris is a Native American boy himself I bet he wrote this book to express his childhood event or one of another's. Michael Dorris has also written, A Yellow Raft on Blue Water, and, The Broken Cord. With that books breakthrough brought fetal alcohol syndrome to national attention. This was a great book to learn lives questions and how to answer them. Because of Michael Dorris's sudden death he was not able to write more books.

Thanksgiving through a looking glass

Michael Dorris' multi-level story of "the first Thanksgiving" flows from the point of view of Moss, a Native American boy-man. Different languages, customs, and mores gently clashed - the strange guests didn't bring gifts or even their own eating utensils. (Actually, the Pilgrims and their progeny brought plenty of gifts: guns, whiskey, and small-pox laden blankets - but that's another story for another day.) Why, as both groups were wary of the other, did the Natives invite the interlopers to the harvest feast? Simple, as Moss' father explains:"Because. They. Are. Hungry."This is a beautiful tale for everyone. The existentialism of Moss' journey, the envelopment in the forest primaeval, are enthralling and enchanting. Reviewed by TundraVision

The race against time

I loved the book Guests.The story tells about a boy named Moss,who tries to convince his parents he is ready to receive the test that will prove him a men.He also does not like the idea that his village is inviting guests for dinner.So, maybe he will run from home. I loved this book because adventure, and suspence are mixed together.I recommend this book for ages 11 to 13 years old.

I like the characters in the book.

I like the book's Guests because it was a very good book . I never completed a book like it before. like when they were in the woods and he got advise. the porcupine told him things he did not know. some of the book was good it made me thing of a guests part . It was so good .