Monday, August 11, 2014

The Beet Fields

by Gary Paulsen
Hennepin County Library audiobook 3 discs
read by Macleod Andrews
genre: YA coming-of-age

This was a re-read and I love Paulsen's ability to tell stories! Andrews' vocal work is wonderful. I always wonder how much is fiction and how much is true to Paulsen's own experience. I would love to share some of the opening sections with working in the beet fields with the Mexicans . . . with my students. But some of it is inappropriate for middle school.

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