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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for boys to read
My son loves to read all of the Tucket series books. This book is a great value because it includes 5 books in one. My son does not put reading on the top of his favorite thing to do however the Tucket series has caught his interest. I recommend this book to anyone with a elementary age boy.
Published on January 9, 2007 by L. Goad

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3.0 out of 5 stars Tucket's Ride

"Tucket's Ride", by Gary Paulsen is a good book. It has action and adventure emotion, and romance. One part of the story when Tucket takes aim with his rifle , but everyone else has there guns pointed at him and they all fired at the same time. If you like action books, than "Tucket's Ride" is the book for you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Tucket's Ride, December 2, 2005
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"Tucket's Ride", by Gary Paulsen is a good book. It has action and adventure emotion, and romance. One part of the story when Tucket takes aim with his rifle , but everyone else has there guns pointed at him and they all fired at the same time. If you like action books, than "Tucket's Ride" is the book for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for boys to read, January 9, 2007
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L. Goad (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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My son loves to read all of the Tucket series books. This book is a great value because it includes 5 books in one. My son does not put reading on the top of his favorite thing to do however the Tucket series has caught his interest. I recommend this book to anyone with a elementary age boy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tuckets Ride, April 19, 2004
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The book that I am reading is called Tuckets Ride. It is the second book in the series. It is about a fifteen year-old boy named Tucket that travels with two orphans across the west. The three have had many scary experiences in there journey like being kidnapped by outlaws and others and always seem to escape.
This is a great book by Gary Paulsen. He describes the places they are at, the weather and the looks of things really well. He makes it easy to picture these things. This book is full of adventure and surprises. This book made me want to read it more since I am about his age. It is a good book to me because as I mentioned about my age and going through stuff, like kidnapping, that other people my age go through.
During the whole book it is kind of like a history lesson because Paulsen gives information about the Wild West.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars tuckets ride is great!, December 19, 2005
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Tuckets Ride is about about a boy named Tucket.The pawnee indians take take him.He escapes because of Jason Grimes the mountain man.He finds Lottie and Billie.They stay with tucket and keep going to Oroegon.To find out the ending you have to read it to believe the end.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tucket's Ride, February 25, 2005
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Tucket's Ride is about a 15 year old boy named Francis Tucket who's on a western adventure to find his parents. In Mr.Tucket,Francis gets a rifle for his fourteenth birhday. He drops back to practice shooting when he gets kidnapped by Pawnee indians.He goes to the indian camping grounds and gets rescued by a western man named Mr.Jason Grimes. He is one-armed man who teaches Francis to live by the way of the wilderness. After all that, Francis and Grimes part ways.On Call Me Francis Tucket, he saves 2 kids from dying.Their father died from a sickess called Chorela. Francis takes the two kids with him on his journey to find his parents on the Oregon Trail.

I really liked Tucket's Ride because it's so exciting and a really good book. I think that every good book should be read and reviewed.So I think you should pick up a copy of Tucket's Ride and get to reading.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Review of Tucket's Ride, by Gary Paulson, May 30, 2000
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Julia Di Fiore (Pasadena, California) - See all my reviews
This book is about Tucket, a fifteen-year-old boy, who is traveling across the Wild West with two orphans, in search of his parents. The three young people encounter a variety of life threatening experiences, such as being kidnapped by a band of Comancheros, outlaws with sympathy for no one. This book features many qualities valuable to the young reader. First, it is filled with suspenseful adventure. It gives detailed accounts of the frightening situations the children get into, and how they always miraculously escape. The story is also exciting because it describes the challenging conditions in which the children live. Paulson explains the landscape, weather, and people exceptionally well, giving the reader a vivid picture of the surroundings. In addition, the author writes about how the children survive, including the way they eat, travel, and defend themselves. They try to be prepared for every unexpected event, especially one that may threaten their lives. In this book, Paulson strongly addresses the universal human concern of survival. He gives the reader a detailed account of the life and death situations with which the children are faced. They are physically abused and generally maltreated by the Comancheros. They are forced to draw upon their every strength in order to endure the conditions. Paulson's focus on the universal human concern of survival is valuable to young readers for several reasons. First, it is important because it teaches children about the way people lived in history, and that not everyone had Nickelodeon and McDonald's! During the time this story took place, people had to live off the land and deal with great hardships due to weather and disease. These are aspects of our environment that we can now have some control over. This theme shows children what we are capable of as humans, and that we can endure a great deal. The children in the story are alone in nature, without their families for security and protection. Their survival is based on how well they can take care of themselves. This is a frightening reality withe which all children can relate. This book is a great source of strength for young readers because it gives them a sense of independence. Reading about children their own age conquering the unpredictable conditions of the West allows children to identify themselves with a group that is strong, resourceful and courageous.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tucket's Ride, December 12, 2000
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It was an easy book to read. It kept my attention and I read it in 3 hours.
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5.0 out of 5 stars awsome, February 14, 2005
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Tucket's Ride



This book is one of the best Gary Paulsen has wrote he gives great detail about the old west. He likes to write about kids getting lost in the wilderness. He writes for kids but adults like his books to. The kid in the book gets lost in the wilderness. His family lost him and he is trying to find them. He runs into all kinds of problem. Mexicans try to kill him because they kill everybody.
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