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Woodsong Sparknotes
Woodsong is book about a man named Gary who is training to join the iditarod, with more than a dozen fun and adorable dogs.Woodsong is a book filled with adventures and lot of mysterious events that all happened in Gary's life! Woodsong talks about the adventures of the wildlife and how to always expect the unexpected in the woods.Gary paulsen is a great book writer, and most of his work is based on wildlife, his personal adventures and life in the woods.If you love adventure, fun and the wild, you should take the time to read his books!
In the story woodsong Gary is on a mission to find more knowlege of wildlife and the woods.With his pack of dogs they set out to find adventure in the the wild seeing nature unfold before their eyes! Woodsong expresses the feeling of being face-to-face with danger.This books takes us to see the true story of the woods, helping us understand and see that somethings we cannot change somethings, we may not like them, but it's apart of life.In the story Gary is no professional dog sled rider, he slowly learns how to properly run the sled,with the help of his dogs and begins running the the race of his life.
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When I read this book it made me want to love nature even more because of all the things that Gary talks about and how life is so short that we have to enjoy it to the fullest.Gary tells us in the book that “the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods’’ is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it,spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.” What I really like about this quote is that this quote tells us that he knows that hunting and killing is not good, but he also knows that it is part of

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