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Paperback
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
ISBN13: 9781562825232
Condition: NEW
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A Daring Rescue...or a Deadly Risk? Ever since Josh's older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub on a hunting trip, it's more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on bringing the defenseless cub home-only to find out he must surrender it to game officials. Knowing the cub will be given to researchers, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking only his brother's motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Josh runs away to the mountains, vowing to stay until the hunting laws are changed. But the mountains hold unexpected menace, and Josh's bid for Justice soon becomes a battle to survive.
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| Liked The Message--About Protecting Wildlife but As a Story |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This is a story about adventure and protecting a bear cub that I'm glad I didn't pass up although it's a book for kids. Josh flees to the mountains with his dog and a bear cub on a dirt bike to keep the orphaned bear cub from being taken by the Montana Fish and Game Department to be used for lab experiments. After Josh's older brother died, Josh's father became an alcoholic and accidentally shot the cub's mother when hunting with his son but wouldn't admit it. It's a very good story about the difference this one boy made and the search to find the boy. He was determined not to return home until he could keep the cub and the law would be changed to not permit bear hunting in the spring when cubs were generally born. I recommend it to boys and animal lovers.
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I received the item very quickly and it was in the condition as described online. Great person to buy from.
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| Yet another book where the medium is definitely not the message |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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Ben Mikaelsen, Rescue Josh McGuire (Hyperion, 1991)
This is a book that comes desperately close to greatness, but manages to shoot itself in the foot at every turn. Ben Mikaelsen has a message to impart, by god, and such things as plot and characterization will not get in his way. That way, of course, lies madness.
Josh McGuire's father, on a hunting trip, shoots a bear that turn out to be a nursing mother. Josh rescues the cub, and the two of them take it home, but his father informs him that when the authorities find out, they'll take it, and it will most likely end up either at the rendering plant or used for medical experimentation. Josh decides that the only way he can save the cub's life is to take it into the wilderness, and hide from society with it until it's full grown.
Obviously, there's a lot to work with here, even when you don't factor in the subplot having to do with Josh's dead brother and the way his brother's death affected the family. Unfortunately, however, the story never gets in the way of Mikaelsen's relentless activism. Mikaelsen is unwilling at any point to let his story, which is pretty unambiguous even without the preaching, get the point across; he has to stop at every juncture he can and lecture us, or have one of his characters lecture us, about the evils of the current bear-hunting laws. The only saving grace to this is that Mikaelsen did, at least, realize that if he was going to write a book, there would have to be at least a thin veneer of story, and that story is interesting enough when he allows it to unfold. If onoly there had been more of that and less lecturing. ** ½
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| The Rescue Josh Maguire |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Even though our school made us read this, it was a really great book. I finished it in two days because it was so interesting.
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| I think you will enjoy reading this book! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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In Bozeman Montana, life has been really hard for 13-year-old Josh McGuire lately. Ever since his older brother died in a car accident his father has been drinking excessively, and taking his anger out on him. But when he orphans a baby bear cub one day, it's more than Josh can stand! Josh insists on rescuing the bear cub, and he gives it the name Pokey and takes it home. He finds out how to take care of it from his friend Otis. But soon Josh finds out that he will have to give the bear to game officials, and that it will be sent to a research laboratory. So he makes a defiant choice. One night he takes his brother's motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Mud Flap, and runs away to the mountains vowing to stay until the hunting laws are change. When they get to the mountains, Josh quickly finds out that his journey has suddenly become a battle to survive --- hunting for food, looking for places to sleep, and trying to keep warm from the cold weather. When Mud Flap gets injured trying to save the cub from a black bear, Josh knows he needs to get help from someone. Meanwhile, back in Bozeman, everybody finds out that Josh has run away with the cub and the police are searching everywhere. When people realize that the game officials still plan to kill the cub, everybody starts wanting the hunting laws changed, too. Will the laws get changed so that Josh can finally come home? This book will have readers on the edge of their seat because it's fast, suspenseful, and exciting. I liked this book because it had animals in it. So if you like animals, and survival books that have a lot of action and adventure, then I think you will enjoy reading this book! --- Reviewed by Ashley
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