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Summary: Farmer Boy
Review: Farmer Boy
Farmer Boy is about a smart and eger boy named Almonzo who wants to train the colts but there is just one problem he is not old enough. This book also talks about how life styles were different than ours today. Another great aspect of this book is that it is full of adventures that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Also the author gives many specific details about the food. I think that the author is trying to show her readers that you should always work hard to reach your goals and never give up. Good thing happen to thoses who wait and work hard. But most of all, it teaches you to do the right thing when choosing right from wrong. I like this book because the author made this story as if I am in the characters shoes. It was written well and full of laughter. I wanted to know if he ever got to train the colts, so I read it that night and got my answer.
kayla
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Summary: Farmer Boy.....Farmer Boy......Farmer Boy
Review: Farmer Boy is about a boy that lives on a farm. On that farm they have colts, and Almanzo wants to train the colt. Almanzo's dad will not let Almanzo train the colts because his dad thinks that he is too small and not old enough. I think the author Laura Ingalls Wilder is trying to say is that nothing comes easy, and you have to work for something that you want really much. Another lesson that the author tried to tell is that you should never lie. I liked this book because when you read the book Farmer Boy you never want to stop reading it because there is always action in this book. Another part why I really liked reading this book is because when they describe something you can almost see is. Read this book and find out if Amanzo can train the colts. IT'S GREAT BOOK!...
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Summary: Farmer Boy
Review: FARMER BOY
In Farmer Boy, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, there is a boy named Almanzo Wilder. He is spunky and loved the farm life and especially horses and colts. His father owned and trained them. Almanzo always wanted a colt, but his father wouldn't let him have one. When he goes to the county fair he sees horses there. He asks if he gets a colt, he could take it to the fair next year.
I think that Laura tries to tell us that hard work and being responsible really do matter. Also that if you try you can accomplish anything you want to. I also think that she tries to show us how hard life was in the 1800's. When they needed milk they have to go out and milk the cow in the cold. They can't go to the store and buy a half- gallon of milk.
I really enjoyed reading this book because Laura gives good descriptions and words it very well. She also shows how hard farm life was back then. So does his responsibility pay off? Does he get a colt or not?
By: Maura
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Summary: A Touching Prairie Novel By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder was the writer of the famous "Little House On The Prairie" series. She was married to Almanzo, whose boyhood Laura wrote about in this poignant and touching novel "Farmer Boy". Apparently, Laura must have consulted with her husband and he must have regailed her with the anecdotes and rich memories of farm life in 19th century New York. The story of Almanzo is just as moving and engrossing as the Laura stories of Little House on the prairie. He is a sensitive boy, a hard worker, full of good family values and humanitarian spirit. Far from boring, the description of the farm and Almanzo's family life is very engaging. He talks of his friendly and warm relationship with his parents, his sister and the older brother he admired- Royal. Almanzo takes his farm chores with a happy and proud spirit, not minding all the sheep shearing, the cow milking and the taming of two colts he becomes very attached to. The harvest, country festivities and even their annual Fourth of July trip to New York City is very realistic, interesting, and touching. This could have well been a movie, or at least a spin off of the hit series "Little House on the Prairie", which dealt with Laura's childhood in the Mid-Western plains. I read farmer boy as a very young girl, I must have been nine or ten, and it touched me as no novel other than E. B. White's "Charlotte's Webb" moved me. These novels are timeless classic, and because of their fine literary merit, they are not merely children's stories, they rise above to the level of great reading material for adults. I recommend this novel to any pre-adolescent who has a fondness for Laura Ingalls' style of writing and, like Almanzo, who sacrificed even a job in the city, a love for the simple joys of nature and the farm.
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Summary: Quite Amazing...
Review: This book was quite amazing. Reading about Almanzo and his family, how he worked on the farm, what life's priorities were and how he handled them, it was a great experience to read this book and see how self sufficient people were back then. The most amazing thing that struck me what nothing was ever wasted, every single crop, plant, tree, it all had a purpose. After all they don't have 2 garbage pickups a week!
Wonderful book for people of any age. Enjoy it!
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Summary: a wonderful book
Review: My son Sam, he's eight and is a grade three student. The teacher asked them to read the book and do a written and oral book report. I guess this website and all the reviews here are
helpful for his little homework.
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Summary: Ok
Review: The book that i read was called Farmer boy it was good but i think that it would be better for older kids because it s a little hard to understand. that's why i would not recommend it to younger kids. Otherwise it was a good book.
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Summary: A gem
Review: If I could pick one book that every 7,8, or 9 year old MUST read, it would be this one. The story of Almanzo Wilder's life growing up on a farm in New York is totally compelling to children at this age. He's just a small boy, but he's strong, capable, and shoulders so much responsibility in the day-to-day on the farm. He works hard, and like all boys, is daydreamy and wistful to be off playing rather than hauling water or chopping wood, but there's such an intensity of life this brings him that the typical media and gizmo saturated child of today is genuinely envious of Almanzo and charmed to journey with him for the year retold in Farmer Boy. He comes from a large family, his parents very loving yet very hardworking people who expect a lot of Almanzo. Nearly everything they eat, wear, and use is produced there on the farm, and it is one of the greatest pleasures of the book that the planting and weaving and washing and building and milking and all the other countless necessaries are vividly detailed and the reader can almost taste Almanzo's favorite apples and onions or smell the sweetly dusty air of the hay barn. I think every child who has read this book is eager to go out at once and grow a pumpkin just the way Almanzo does it--Almanzo has the secret for growing the biggest pumpkins in the county. And there's no greater inspiration than Almanzo to tempt kids into adventuring with some good wholesome food. The boy's mealtime accounts are absolutely mouthwatering. And working hard from sun up to sun down, that boy could eat! But Almanzo is restless, and not so much to be free to play all day, but to be allowed to work with his father's prize horses. His father is known have the finest horses, and he's not about to let just anybody mess with them. Horses must be handled just right, otherwise you could easily ruin them, and Almanzo's not ready to be trusted with them. The 'coming of age' for Almanzo is one of the most touching and powerful in all of children's literature. Please - if you've a child this age who hasn't yet read or heard Farmer Boy, don't let this book pass them by. By the end of the book you have come to know and love Almanzo so well, it's a sad good-bye indeed. Reader's won't meet him again until years later, as a young man who first meets Laura Ingalls in "By the Shores of Silver Lake".
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Summary: true farm story
Review: Farmer Boy is a good book but yet interesting. It begins on a farm setting. Once you read it you understand things a little better. Sometimes they don't tell things in complete but after you read a little further it all comes together, or that's the way it seams to me. I believe it is an older book but it is still interesting. It talks about how they did things in the old days. I wish there was more books like that because I would read more of them.
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Summary: Amazing! Best of the octet!
Review: A long time ago, eight-year old Almanzo Wilder and his family lived on a farm in New York state. Every evening, he and his brother, Royal, had to do their chores, which were milking the cows, filling the horse's troughs with water, pitching hay, chopping ice, hauling wood, and more. They had to grow their own corn, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, and peas,which also meant they had to fight frost to save the corn. They made their own clothes and tools. Almanzo had two calves that he had to train to haul things.
In this book, many things happened to Almanzo. When he and his father went to chop ice, Almanzo fell into the water. Also, Almanzo's mother and father went away for ten days, leaving Almanzo and his siblings at home. While they were away, Almanzo painted the stove black. While he was painting, his sister, Eliza Jane, came in and made him mad. He started waving his hand with the paintbrush in it around, and it flew out of his hand. It hit the wall and made a black splotch, so Eliza Jane patched it up.
I would recommend this book, because it is kind of, but not too descriptive. Also, it is fun to read and listen to because the writer makes boring things sound fun like when Almanzo has to do chores.
My favorite character was Alice, one of Almanzo's older sisters, because she did everything that Almanzo and Royal did, even though she was a girl. She was also really nice and never got mad, even when Almanzo and Royal tease her.
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