Skeeter

by Karla Smith

Book Overview

The adventures of two young boys befriended by an old black man who is a legendary hunter. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395496039
• ISBN13: 9780395496039
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Skeeter

SkeeterK. SmithThis book is about to boys who have a passion for hunting. They are always looking for places and people to go hunting with. Once they tried to go on their neighbors land but got caught and got in big trouble. There neighbor was a legendary hunter named Skeeter Hawkins. They have a long talk about hunting with him and then he agrees to teach them how to hunt. Over the months Skeeter teaches Joey and Steve how to hunt. He taught them everything you can possibly imagine. He taught them how to call the birds in. He taught them how to hold their guns, How to aim, how to take care and clean their guns.As skeeter is dying he tells them about something he remembered from seeing in a dream or something. He can?t remember anything about the animal. He tells the kids where he thinks the mythical creature is. So Joey and Steve set out to try and find the mythical animal.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about things they are interested in. I do not like to read but for some reason I liked this book a lot. I think it was because I wasn?t just reading because I had to it was because I liked what I was reading.Justin

Earger Joey

I thought that the book was a really good book to read one of the best that i have read in a while. i also thought that Joey was good at asking many questons to Skeeter about every thing. I was also interested in the part of the book in chapter four where Skeeter was helping Joey look for a dog to train to hunt with him. and that all the dogs that Joey liked Skeeter said that they wouldbe a pain or something other like that. I also like Steve as the quiet one that warmed up to Abraham Lincoln and Joey was jelous so Skeeter told him that orvel Fabous was his type of dog and to go take him for a walk. that was a very intersting and exciting part. over all i really liked and enjoyed the book.

A Funny book

Skeeter Skeeter was a really fun book to read because you didn't know what was going to happen next. I think it was overall a pretty good book but some of the chapters bored me so I had to excuse those parts but other than that it was a great book. I give this book nine out of ten stars. I more liked the book than disliked it because it was about animals and the outdoors and I love the outdoors. This book I think is rare to find because not many authors like the outdoors and hunting. This is the first book I read from this author so I can't compare it to her other books but I am probibly going to read them soon. I think if your are involed with the outdoors or just like the outdoors you should get this book. Because in the story these two boys love to hunt and fish in the outdoors and then they run into a big time hunter that teaches them the importance of the outdoors and how to track and hunt. It has teached me some stuff I didn't even know how to do. Like if your lost in the woods and you don't know where to go it tells you how you can find directions on what side the moss grows on the tree. And how to build a fire without matches. I think if I had to put this book in a catogory it would be knowing how to hunt and surview in the outdoors.