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  • Written by: Gary Paulsen
  • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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When his family packs up and moves from the city to a small town deep in the Wisconsin countryside, 15-year-old Wil Neuton makes an exhilarating discovery. He finds a small island on a nearby lake, a place where he can be alone and learn to know nature—and himself. On his island, he can write, paint, and watch the loons and fish in the lake. Wil can’t stay away from the outside world forever, though. Sooner or later, he must return and face the bully determined to fight him and his bickering parents, who worry when Wil decides to stay on the island indefinitely. Can Wil bridge the growing gap between himself and the rest of the world? Lyric and reflective, Newbery Honor-winner Gary Paulsen’s tale displays all the adventurous spirit and wholesome optimism that have made his books so popular.
©1988 Gary Paulsen (P)1994 Recorded Books
Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Depression & Mental Health
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The idea of understanding things means you need to have an absence of something – that’s a theme of the book.

Excellent just excellent as everyone of his books are! He puts so much tall into every story, and all the stories have the looking inter, respectively myself.

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