What do You think about The Weirdo (Paperback) (2006)?
i think this book is okay. i like the setting of it and the story about chip is really sad. i like this book because it really gives the reader a great mental image of what's going on. i like how everybody thinks chip is weird and a freak. but if people got to know him they would find out that he's nice and means well. i hate the fact that because everybody judges him he thinks that he has to live in the woods away from everybody. while reading this book i got more and more into it. I was happy when i read what happened to chip. i was curious the whole time about why people called him weird. i felt good about the whole situation when Telford offered him a job searching for bears to count the population. i would be super bored out in the middle of the woods alone with one other person. I'm sure he was excited to finally be doing something different. this was a great read and im happy i chose it. i would definitely suggest this book to my friends.
—chase l
I decided to read this book because the cover of it intrigued me. This girl when she was little went into the swamp and found a dead body. I was very exited to read the story and was not able to put it down. It was a about This girl when she was little went into the swamp and found a dead body. Later,the girl was back in the swamp and a man that people call "The Weirdo" helped her safely to his house offering her food and drinks. They ended up having a good relationship as friends. This story has some mystery to it but it's mostly about the relationship between Sam and the weirdo.
—Steven Walsh
older teen loses mother and sister in plane wreck prior to the book starting; boy lives with father in remote seaside town after that and is “saved” by a Ph.D student studying bear habitate patterns in an area where bear hunting has been prohibited for last 5-years; boy meets girl and both tackle the issues surrounding whether the prohibition should continue. Oh, such nice character development for every single one of the characters (there were more than a few); author has written many Young Adult Books; raised in state of NC but now living in state of CA; per jacket cover this book “grew out of his (author’s) experiences in and around NC and Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp…” 1991 hardback via Morgan, 289 pgs.; read Oct. ‘13/#56
—Dale Barlow
