Restoration In The Barrens

By Joe Riederer

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967138604
• ISBN13: 9780967138602
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Big Bluestem Pr
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Story About a Teen and a Second Chance

This book is a great way to teach ecology concepts to adolescents, but it's also a quick read. Corey quickly becomes a friend of the reader, although most readers would agree at the beginning that Corey is somewhat a geek. Through his trials, he shares with the reader his love of nature, especially the praries of Wisconsin. All the places mentioned in the book really do exist, as well as all the ecological concepts. This was an awesome story and my students couldn't wait to read his next book; Trouble in the Barrens.

It's a coming of age story about a teenage boy's struggle.

I loved this book. The writer knows what happens to young adolescents when they don't "fit in" to their high school society. They get harrassed, rejected, taunted and humiliated, and some teachers look on and fail to protect, even seem to sanction. But the grieving young man in this fast moving story takes to the near by woods and prairie, studies the plants and animals, hangs out with the natural world. And is richly rewarded by being needed in a restoration project. The story could not be more timely, when we are all talking about teenage anger and its sometimes tragic expression. Edith Nash