Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · September 1, 1989
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- Who it’s for
- A realistic story of anger, hard work, and the possibility of finding a steadier way forward.
- Themes
- Anger and self-control, Hope and personal change, Rural poverty
- Genres
- 20th-Century U.S., Growing Up, Homelessness & Poverty
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"Paulsen (a Newbery Honor author) adds another affecting and realistic title to his pantheon of stories about outsiders learning how to become more positive forces in the world."--SLJ From the city Carley learned rage—can the country bring him peace? Carley would rather be anywhere but here: a town deep in Minnesota’s farm country, with nothing plentiful except poverty.
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Still, staying with his uncle David and his family is better than reform school—which was where Carley was heading. Something was eating away at him, making him do crazy, violent things. No one could understand why—least of all Carley himself. But then David takes Carley to his blacksmith forge. And under the grim nights and days of the Minnesota fall, under the glow of hot steel, and the most exhausting work he has ever known, Carley begins to see a way to shape his life. “A beautiful written message of hope.”—International Checkpoint
Work and Renewal
A realistic story of anger, hard work, and the possibility of finding a steadier way forward.
Come here for
- A young outsider’s struggle to understand his own anger
- Rural poverty and the demanding work of a blacksmith forge
Expect
- A grounded, affecting read about change through work
- Hope that arrives without pretending change is easy
Where it sits
| 20th-Century U.S. | 36% |
|---|---|
| Growing Up | 24% |
| Homelessness & Poverty | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Country Life
- Growing Up
- Self-Esteem & Resilience
- Authors
- Gary Paulsen
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- September 1, 1989
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Anger and self-control · Hope and personal change · Rural poverty
- Reading lane
- Country Life