#2 The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen is a Newbery Honor Book. This book is a very descriptive book about a family's life on the farm. The author describes everything so well it seems that you have been living with the family your whole life. I loved reading the book to find out what life on a farm would have been like during that period of time. The characters are very well developed and it tells about how family was more important than friends in those days, more so than today.

I like all of Gary Paulsen's work and this one just adds to list of his books that I will share with my students. He writes in a way that paints pictures in your mind so that you can actually feel what it was like to be there. The descriptive words and interesting plots he uses definitely make it hard to put this book down. In my opinion, the best part of this book is to read Uncle David's short stories.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book for elementary age students. It certainly was an easy read for me because it was set in the 1930's which made it interesting to read about ways life was back then.