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Tucket's Home

Gary Paulsen

200293 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2002
first published
  • 2000Delacorte Press · 93 pages · ENGISBN 9780385326483
  • 2002Random House Children's Books · ENGISBN 9780375890055
  • 2003Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613579315
  • 2002Yearling · 112 pages · ENGISBN 9780440415589
  • 2001Perfection Learning PreboundISBN 9780756911003

Francis Tucket, Lottie and Billy have survived extraordinary, hair-raising adventures in their quest to find Francis's family, lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Now they meet up with a British explorer, bloodthirsty soldiers, and in a tragic, heroic encounter, with Jason Grimes, the mountain man. Their way is made more treacherous still by the secret they carry, the ancient gold they discovered in a Spanish grave. In this final adventure they head home at last, and an epilogue tells what happens to them on the Oregon frontier.From the Trade Paperback edition.

How it feels

AtmosphereGritty

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

Worth knowing

ViolenceOccasional
Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesSurvival

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