The Beet Fields

by	Gary Paulsen

SKU: 9780099439653 Categories: CHILDREN'S, Dating ; Relationships, JUVENILE FICTION, Personal ; social issues: sexuality ; relationships (Children's, Social Themes, Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance and love, TEENAGE) Tags: addiction books, Adrian Mole, biff and chip level 1, biff and kipper books, biff chip and kipper level 1, children's books, Comics, Coming of age, dating, dating books, Divorce, dogs, family, fantastic four, friendship, Green Lantern, health, Horses, human biology, judy blume, Malorie Blackman, michael grant, Mother Goose, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Noughts and Crosses, nursery rhymes book, owl babies, parenting, parents, Patrick Ness, Puberty, romance, scooby doo, Self Help, sex education, Sweet Valley High, The Art of, the outsiders, Timmy Failure, young adult

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America, 1955. For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day’s an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust–always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He’s living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He’s tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he’s pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.

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Weight	0.118 kg
Dimensions	0.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by	Gary Paulsen
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	176
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year Published	2002-9-5
Imprint	Red Fox
For Ages	12-17
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0099439654
About The Author	Gary Paulsen grew up in the Philippines and has worked as a sailor, archer, trapper, singer, actor and carnival worker, amongst others. He is the author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, and has won the prestigious Newbery Honor Award three times, for his books The Winter Room, Hatchet and Dogsong. He lives in New Mexico and on a boat in the Pacific, with his wife, the painter Ruth Wright Paulsen.
	A masterly piece of storytelling
Other text	Not for the faint-hearted, opening with a sickening scene of incest forcing a 16-year-old boy to leave home and gathering momentum with gritty, though never gratuitous, scenes of painful childbirth, pigeon neck-ringing and exploding pheasants. But it works

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