Status
Available
Publication
Random House Childrens Books (1963)
Description
A lonely boy who has no home and works as a migrant laborer makes friends with a sheep-raising family.
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LibraryThing member Whisper1
I'm enjoying July YA reading and all the Newbery award winning books I've read. This one is short and sappy and...wonderful!
Winner of the 1963 Newbery honor, this small book is heart warming and poignant. Homeless, nameless, young and stubborn, the character has no knowledge of a family. He simply
En route to California where he believes more opportunity may await, emaciated, starving and ill, he is found in the Montana wilderness by a tough woman who tends a large flock of sheep. Taking him in, she gives poetically gives him the name of David, the shepherd who valiantly fought the lion to guard his sheep.
This is an amazing tale of strength, courage and fortitude. It is a tale of building walls to protect. It is a story of a young boy who is afraid to trust and love and a woman who has suffered loss and likewise fears vulnerability.
Recommended.
Winner of the 1963 Newbery honor, this small book is heart warming and poignant. Homeless, nameless, young and stubborn, the character has no knowledge of a family. He simply
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remembers fending for himself for a long, long time. With no history of anyone to assist him, he struggles to survive and he does so barely, by eking out a bare subsistence living traveling as a migrant worker.En route to California where he believes more opportunity may await, emaciated, starving and ill, he is found in the Montana wilderness by a tough woman who tends a large flock of sheep. Taking him in, she gives poetically gives him the name of David, the shepherd who valiantly fought the lion to guard his sheep.
This is an amazing tale of strength, courage and fortitude. It is a tale of building walls to protect. It is a story of a young boy who is afraid to trust and love and a woman who has suffered loss and likewise fears vulnerability.
Recommended.
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LibraryThing member debnance
Now and then, I continue on my quest to read all the Newbery Honor books. The Loner is the story of an orphan who unexpectedly winds up on a sheep farm run by a big yet shy woman who has lost her son to a bear. Lots of action. Do kids even know about lives like this boy’s?
LibraryThing member electrascaife
An orphan boy who has learned to rely only on himself and lives day to day traveling west and working here and there on fruit farms somehow finds himself on a sheep farm in Montana and stumbles into a family to call his own.
A nice little story, if totally predictable. Plus: enter bear stage left.
A nice little story, if totally predictable. Plus: enter bear stage left.
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Another plus: sheepherding dogs. Show Less
LibraryThing member FriendsLibraryFL
The boy with no name doesn't remember his past; all he knows is that he has to survive, and that means picking fruit on various farms across the southwest. Staying with anyone who'll take him, he gives up all his wages for food and a place to sleep. Then he finds a loving home and realizes he is no
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longer a loner. A 1964 Newbery Honor book. Show Less
Subjects
Awards
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1966)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1965-1966)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 1964)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee — 1964-1965)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1963
Physical description
8.2 inches
ISBN
0679200975 / 9780679200970