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The Foxman

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I thought this book was awesome! It is my favorite book. It is about a boy who is striped away from his parents because they have a drinking problem. So they send him to live in his uncles cabin. He has to get use to it than he starts to get wilder and goes hunting with his cousin. They see a fox and chase after it for a long time until he find a log cabin so he knocks on the door and the Foxman appears.He Has a messed up face he puts a mask on. They spent the night and left,but Carl likes him so he keeps coming back until he gets snow blind on the way and if you want to knows what happens to Carl and The Foxman read the book The Foxman. I recomend this book to adventureous people. This book teaches people not to judge a book by its cover.

A fifteen-year-old boy has been putting up with the hazards of his drunken parents for some time now. After a certain event happens as a result of them being drunk, the boy is ordered by the court to go live with his family in the cold woods of Minnesota until he can come back home.

While staying with his new family, the boy will see what it's like to do some pretty tough chores, he'll hear many unfunny war stories, and try to fit in with the people he now has to share a house with. But all of those things pale in comparison to meeting and befriending the Foxman. This 'Foxman' isn't your typical, everyday person; something bad happened to him years ago, and he doesn't choose to be anywhere near society, but there's something about the boy's company that changes him.

"The Foxman" is a GRIPPING story, to say the least! The author, Gary Paulsen has had countless experiences of what it's like to live in the north amongst the woods and wildlife, and you can definitely see it when you read many of his books. I must say, it is beyond me as to why "The Foxman" wasn't a Newbery Honor Book. It's much better than The Winter Room, which did win the great honor, and it's a downright classic in my book!

Gary Paulsen has a natural gift of writing in a way as to provide imagery from start to finish in his works. While you're reading "The Foxman", you will be devoured into the story and after you read so far, you'll almost feel like you're actually a part of the story. Let me give you a fair warning right now, once you begin reading THIS book, you will not want to put it down until you finish it. Another great thing about the book is that its characters are very interesting; you'll grow attached to the two main characters before you know it.

"The Foxman" is a great, adventurous book about friendship, troubles, and life in the northern woods. If you're a fan of books of those kinds, you can't afford to NOT purchase this one! I've read a bunch of Gary Paulsen's books (I just counted 16 from memory), and I'd put "The Foxman" right up there with the likes of "Hatchet", "Dogsong", and "The Island". It just might be one of the most underrated books there are.

The book was probably one of Paulsen's best. He really out-did himself with this book! It is a touching story about friendship, lose, betrayle, and kids dealing with grown-up problems. This book leaves the reader beging for a sequal. This book made even me cry. It's very heavy, but worth the tears. You'll be reading deep into the night... telling yourself you'll stop after this sentence, this paragraph, this page... until you've finished the book... My only warning about this book is lack of sleep while reading it.

A teenager named Carl is sent up into Northern Minnesota to live with his relatives. He starts to get really close to his cousin and they start doing a lot of things together. One night though, Carl and his cousin get stuck in a blizzard. Carl immediately looks for somewhere to stay for the night. He finds a little cottage to stay in for the night so they go there. A man with a mask on his lower-face is living there and he seems very lonely. Carl and his cousin stay there for the night and each second of the night, Carl keeps getting more and more curious about the Foxman. For the next few days, Carl keeps coming over to the cottage to see the old man without his cousin. On one very strong blizzard, Carl becomes snow-blind. He gets very scared and screams for help. He finally gives up but, fortunately the Foxman is able to save him. That night Carl gets rid of his blindess and goes to sleep. Unfortunately to find the next morning is the Foxman about to die. After the Foxman dies, Carl decides to take one thing from the Foxman's cottage. Before he leaves, he sets the little cottage on fire so there would be no more trace of the Foxman. This book is a great story of one boys attempt to find something.

The book starts out when the boy was sent to live with his uncle.He and his brother find a shack in the woods. They find out a man lives there who's half man - half fox. He is called Foxman.

The kid was out in the snow too long. The kid went snowblind.Luckly the foxman helped. A lot of sad stuff happens when someone dies.

I like foxman because I like snow and winter. This book is best for kids who like wilderness, snow, winter and discoveries in the wild.

"I loved this book, it made me really think about what it would be like to have a face that was mutilated." -Carson Solien

Imagine that you are an only child and you live with to alcoholic parents. Then one day your mom tries to kill u with a knife you hide under the table the next-door neighbor hers you yelling they call nine one one. Then you have to go move in with your Aunt, uncle and cousins in Canada. All this happens in the book fox man by Gary Paulsen.
Gary Paulsen, the author and Carl his cousin went out hunting one day. It was twenty to fifty below zero they saw a fox and followed it till they noticed that a big gray cloud was coming overhead. They decided to wait out the storm because they were fifteen miles away from the farm. They were just about to make camp when they saw a little shack with smoke coming out of the chimney. They decided to ask for shelter for the night.
An older man opened the door he had a molted face they both looked away he went in a got a mask to put over his face. Then he said come in out of the storm. They both went in to the nice cozy shack. He said they could stay for the night. They took their boots and jackets of and then he asked them if they were hungry and they sad yes and he gave them some aged Moose and water. But they keep thinking of his face and didn't want to ask him what happened because they didn't want to be rude. He told them that he wouldn't be there in the morning so they could just leave. Morning came. Gary and Carl got their boots and jacket. There was a note on the table and it read had to go check the traps, fox man. A minute after they left they looked back and saw the fox man come out from behind the woodpile and went into the shack. They thought because he didn't want him to see his face
When they got back to the farm they got in trouble for being out but they were also happy to see them. About a two weeks later Gary decided to go back to the shack he was curios to see what happened to his face.
Read Fox man to find out.

This is the best book I have read for awhile. It tells about Carl and his cousin taking a journey through the woods. They were after a fox. They get lost on the way home and a storm is coming. They find a shack and knock on the door. The foxman answered the door and the boys seen his hideous face before he could grab his mask. The boys leave the next mourning but Carl's cousin keeps going back to find out more about the foxman. What I enjoyed most about the book was the author kept, well, when I was tired of reading I didn't want to put the book down. This is a great book. You have to read it.

The Foxman was the best book I ever read by GARY PAULSUM.Ithink you will enjoy it.The Foxman is a very different story becauseit takes place in the woods.The best friendship happened there.The end has a very sudden twist.

I liked this book because it was fun and easy to read. It also was easy to visualize the parts of the book when and how they happen. It is packed full of detail. It is a little sad in the beginning, but gets a little bit better as you progress through the story.
The Foxman is about a 15-year-old boy who was taken away from his parents because one night they got so drunk that they tried to kill their own son with a butcher's knife. So the boy went to go live up north with his aunt, uncle, and cousins. They are farmers in the northern wilderness. At first he didn't like it there but once the winter stories came he'd grown to like it more than his old home. That's when he met the foxman, an old man who had fought in the wars. He was named the foxman for his skills of catching fox.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes surprise endings and needs to picture what is going on to actually understand the book.