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Language English Pages 103 Page count 103 Awards John Newbery Medal | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publisher Scholastic Books, 1989 Originally published September 1989 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Winter Room is a short novel by Newbery Honor Award-winning author Gary Paulsen. It is a realistic Fiction story about logging and farming, narrated in the first person to two boys by their Norwegian uncle in the "winter room" of a farm in northern Minnesota (U.S.). Like many of his works, it evokes a harsh rural environment using vivid imagery, and has elements of a coming of age tale.
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The winter room author by gary paulsen
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According to Hurst, it is a "brief, intense novel with incredible descriptive scenes" (n.d.), and Schmitz rates it as one of Paulsen's best. Publishers Weekly found "Newbery Award-winner Paulsen never disappoints, and proves his talent again in this remarkably good tale"
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