W. Ross Macdonald School Library

The Cookcamp /

Paulsen, Gary, 1939-2021, author.

The Cookcamp / Gary Paulsen. - New York Yearling, 1992, c1991. - 115 pages ; 20 cm

Tells the adventure-filled story of a boy sent to live with his grandmother, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the Minnesota wilderness, in 1944.

With his father fighting in the war and his mother so far away in Chicago, it's hard to be brave. Grandmother understands, but can she find a way to help him return home?


Grades 6 - 8
RL: 5.5
007-011
Lexile MeasureĀ®: 1070
DRA: 40
Guided Reading: S

0440407044

90007734 /AC


Grandmothers--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Cooks--Fiction.
Roads--Fiction.


FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II.

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