We left paradise when I was five and moved to the city to live with my mother's sister. I later learned, there were two reasons for this move: so that my parents could find work and I could attend school. My mother was sympathetic toward my desire to return to the farm, so every July 1 she took me back to paradise for the summer. I lived the rest of the year for those two months.
CONTENTSPreface xi
Acknowledgements xii
Chapter - 1 A Place in the Universe 1
Chapter - 2 Doe, a Deer 7
Chapter - 3 Turkey Shoot 25
Chapter - 4 A Snake in the Grass 37
Chapter - 5 Bears, Oh My! 49
Chapter - 6 Mother Courage 65
Chapter - 7 The Fox Knows Many Things 81
Chapter - 8 The Seed Warriors 97
Chapter - 9 A Gaze of Raccoons 111
Chapter - 10 Walker's Pond 127
Chapter - 11 The Young Pythagoreans 149
Chapter - 12 A Miscellany of Birds 163
Chapter - 13 The Fifth Squirrel 183
Chapter - 14 Insectia 203
Chapter - 15 The Warrior Class 223
Chapter - 16 The Sky Gods 237
Chapter - 17 North Woods Runners 259
Chapter - 18 The Land Between 277
Map of the Farms 288
Endnotes 289