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Wintering

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I read the Broken Blade,in school and I loved it. So i read this on my own. I normaly hate reading, but the Broken Blade was so good that I had to buy it. Good thing too, It is even better than the first. I really liked the part where the bear went crazy. I think that this book would be great for anyone who likes adventure and humor... thanks

Wintering is a must read book for anyone who loves tales of wilderness adventure and growing up. Though I would recommend reading The Broken Blade first, this story works perfectly well as a stand-alone tale, too. The setting and the characters--especially the evil Beloit, who grows remarkably in depth from Durbin's first book--are depicted with vivid realism. Adults will enjoy this story as much as younger readers will.

This book is about a thirteen year old boy named Pierre who becomes a voyeger and spends two years in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Canada. He works for the North West Company with a good friends La Pettite, Beliot a sheer chatter box, louie a new comer to the company like Pierre was two years ago. They build a trading post in an indian village. Pierre expeirences many crazy and wild adventures wile with his crewmembers in the northern woods.

This book is filled with courage trust and most of all friendship. A perfect book an adventure loving person who likes the outdoors.

Wintering is about Pierre, a thirthteen-year-old boy, boy spends the summer of 1800 paddling and portaging a canoe twenty-four hundred miles into the French Canadian wilderness. When He is fourteen-year-old he becomes an hivernant who traps and trades furs with a crew in the North. He had to spend months in closed quaters with a teasing bowman and his leader that trys to push pierre into reading in english. Pierre becomes really close friends with an Ojibwe, who welcomes Pierre La Page into the his family.
If you like French and understand French, adventure, love the wild, and like Indians then Wintering is the book for you.

A continuation of the story of a young voyaguer begun in THE BROKEN BLADE, this book is even better than the orginal. Filled with irony, surprise, and emotional truth, it shows what it takes to become a winterer or hivernant with the North West Fur Company at the turn of the 19th century.

I am a student from Minnesota, and I would like to recommend this book. I think the story was very well written with an engaging character base. The best part though, was the likeability of the main character Pierre. I think that this book would offer everyone a satisfying and entertaining read....be prepared for a moving ending!!

I read, and used in a history class, this author's first book in this set so I ordered this one to add to my personal library. It is not worth the purchase due to the pc insertions that were hard to ignore.

In contrast to The Broken Blade, the most gripping parts of Wintering take place within Pierre La Page, fourteen-year-old and hivernaut. As Pierre grapples with grief he makes many decisions about the sort of man he will become. His friendship with Red Loon, his view of himself as a scholar, and his dawning understanding that people may be more than they seem all point to the path ahead, should Durbin continue it. There is less trader lore, but in its place is a glimpse into the daily routines of Native Americans of the North.

This is such a fine adventure that it has even received rave reviews from my fussiest middle school readers.

I normally don't like when books are assigned in school, but this one turned out to be a great story. Lots of adventure, exitement, and good description. I'd recommend it to everyone.