Harris and Me

In the fine American tradition of Tom Sawyer and the Great Brain, meet Harris, nine years old and full of spit, foul language, and half-baked ideas for making life on the farm a little less dull. Paulsen's best known for his wilderness survival tale, Hatchet, but Harris and Me has long been our family favorite, full of wholesome adventures involving cussing, "art" photographs, and the many reckless ways—an electric fence, a bike souped up with a washing-machine motor—in which Harris, hilariously, puts his "business" in peril. (10 and up) —Tom (and Laura, Peter, and Henry)