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I have not read Hatchet, I will try and find that one and read it.
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Battle Cry by Leon Uris.
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there was a series like hardey boys .... but si fi and rocket stuff
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I read this entire thread and I don’t think anyone mentioned Hatchet or the river by Gary Paulson. Two great adventure books for a teen growing up. I really wish I could remember the other book from about the same time that Hatchet came out. About a bush pilot and a boy that crashed in Canada or Alaska and they had to canoe down a river You must have missed my post, However, I mentioned that it was the book that got my son into reading.
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I almost forgot, Paddle to the Sea. A little Indian boy in Minnesota has a little toy canoe about 12 inches long. He puts it in the creek. This is the story of the little wooden canoe as it floats down the creek into a river, and then, into the Mississippi. Eventually the little canoe makes it all the way to New Orleans.
This is a great book.
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Yes it is and still out there and NOT PCed up !
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I was born and raised in the sagebrush, cows and calves...life was beyond boring, reading was the escape. Along comes the Saturday Evening Post and the stories written by Guy Gilpatric...the hero, Colin Glencannon, a Scottish marine engineer and his series of adventures. I was hooked. I eventually worked my way from the sagebrush to the coast and on to tugboats, living the dream. Thank you Mr Gilpatric.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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I must be the only sumbish here that read the Will James books and wanted to grow up to be a cowboy.....
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I almost forgot, Paddle to the Sea. A little Indian boy in Minnesota has a little toy canoe about 12 inches long. He puts it in the creek. This is the story of the little wooden canoe as it floats down the creek into a river, and then, into the Mississippi. Eventually the little canoe makes it all the way to New Orleans.
This is a great book. That is a great book. There was a short film made of it too, I believe. .
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I almost forgot, Paddle to the Sea. A little Indian boy in Minnesota has a little toy canoe about 12 inches long. He puts it in the creek. This is the story of the little wooden canoe as it floats down the creek into a river, and then, into the Mississippi. Eventually the little canoe makes it all the way to New Orleans.
This is a great book. That is a great book. There was a short film made of it too, I believe. . You're correct. I seem to remember seeing it Sunday nights on Disney. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060810/
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many...
but "The boy that cried Wolf" comes to mind in our present environment...
I am sure that there are othe, better ones..
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I was 12 when I read "About Face" - Col. Hackworth
Big Red
Hardy Boys Mysteries
Moby Dick
I read a TON of Stephen King as a little kid - probably why slasher/horror films do nothing for me today
Old Bowhunting magazines from my dad
Varmint Hunter's Digest
Alas Babylon
Russell Annabel
Basically read everything I could get my hands on and then that waned as I got into my 30's. I have a bookshelf full of things I want to read and haven't yet.
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Great thread Steve - brought back lots of memories. My copy of "My Side of the Mountain" was so worn out, it was fairly obvious it was one of my go-tos. Others were: Robinson Crusoe Swiss Family Robinson Outdoor Bushcraft Red Badge of Courage Anything by Hemingway, Ruark, and Twain Like many others, Encyclopedia Brittanica and I were constant companions also. One thing I used to do as a kid at bedtime was take my dictionary and open it to a random page, stick my finger on a random word, and read it. Would do that several times a night. You probably would never know that by reading some of my sophomoric posts, right Old_Toot? (Maybe I should stick with emulating Enoch Powell.) And of course - National Pornographic was probably the most life changing. 
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. . . Hardy Boys Mysteries . . . Big +1 . . . I just split up my childhood collection (dozens of Hardy Boys books) with my two grandsons for last Christmas.
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+1. I learned that you can make a tiger run so fast around a tree that it will turn into butter. Huh???? Still have my hard-backed childhood copy stashed away somewhere. I may be breaking the law by the mere possession of it.
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Don't know if it changed my life, but I sure did love "Where The Wild Things Are".
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Uncle Remus and The Tar Baby.
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On a more metaphysical or spiritual examination, The Velvetine Rabbit.
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I'll tell you, the book Curious George and The Electric Fence. Was for me, a real eye opener.
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