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Grade 5-8-A melange built around the experiences of 13-year-old Tim, who sets off to seek his fortune with his older brother and his dog. This very average piece of historical fiction is sometimes told in narrative and sometimes related in entries from Tim's diary. As the adventure moves along, the book hits on many coming-of-age issues, and has a subtheme of gambling, which was rife in the Klondike. Curtly interjected into the story are historical and technical points of interest, short biographical sketches of some real-life characters (dance-hall girls, Mounted Police, etc.), and activities such as Klondike solitaire. These pieces of information are valuable and relevant, but because they are designed in an unclear format, they are intrusive if readers attempt to follow the story line, and all are without footnotes. About half a dozen archival photos do what the copious and romantically dull drawings do not: give a sense of how harsh, dirty, exciting, and difficult gold mining was at that time and place. The weakest parts of the book are only skin deep, and, with patience, readers may find it somewhat useful as an additional resource.
Andrew Medlar, Chicago Public Library, IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 4-7. Through a comfortable combination of fiction and nonfiction, this book presents the life of a young miner during the Klondike gold rush between 1897 and 1899. Thirteen-year-old Tim accompanies his older brother on a difficult trek from Seattle to the Yukon, where they set up as miners. After enduring difficulties such as frostbite, hard labor, hard luck, and cabin fever, they make their fortunes and head for home. Told in the third person from Tim's point of view, the episodic story is involving as fiction and informative about the experiences of Klondike miners. Between sections of the story are pages discussing everything from the supplies needed for the trip to gambling in the town of Dawson to methods of mining and panning for gold. In addition to period photographs, excellent shaded pencil drawings appear throughout the book. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Grade 5-8-A melange built around the experiences of 13-year-old Tim, who sets off to seek his fortune with his older brother and his dog. This very average piece of historical fiction is sometimes told in narrative and sometimes related in entries from Tim's diary. As the adventure moves along, the book hits on many coming-of-age issues, and has a subtheme of gambling, which was rife in the Klondike. Curtly interjected into the story are historical and technical points of interest, short biographical sketches of some real-life characters (dance-hall girls, Mounted Police, etc.), and activities such as Klondike solitaire. These pieces of information are valuable and relevant, but because they are designed in an unclear format, they are intrusive if readers attempt to follow the story line, and all are without footnotes. About half a dozen archival photos do what the copious and romantically dull drawings do not: give a sense of how harsh, dirty, exciting, and difficult gold mining was at that time and place. The weakest parts of the book are only skin deep, and, with patience, readers may find it somewhat useful as an additional resource.
Andrew Medlar, Chicago Public Library, IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 4-7. Through a comfortable combination of fiction and nonfiction, this book presents the life of a young miner during the Klondike gold rush between 1897 and 1899. Thirteen-year-old Tim accompanies his older brother on a difficult trek from Seattle to the Yukon, where they set up as miners. After enduring difficulties such as frostbite, hard labor, hard luck, and cabin fever, they make their fortunes and head for home. Told in the third person from Tim's point of view, the episodic story is involving as fiction and informative about the experiences of Klondike miners. Between sections of the story are pages discussing everything from the supplies needed for the trip to gambling in the town of Dawson to methods of mining and panning for gold. In addition to period photographs, excellent shaded pencil drawings appear throughout the book. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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