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The Rifle

Written by: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
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Summary

A treasured antique rifle gets into the wrong hands in this YA novel by the Newbury Award–winning author: "a truly mesmerizing tale, from beginning to end" (Publishers Weekly).

In 1768, gunsmith Cornish McManus painstakingly crafted his masterpiece: a rifle of extraordinary beauty and accuracy. Though he knows he will never be able to replicate it, Cornish is forced to sell it to a man named John Byam, who carried it with pride into the Revolutionary War.

Passed down through generations, the beloved rifle ends up decorating the mantle of a modern-day mechanic and father named Harv. But what happens then is shocking, terrifying, and completely devastating.

©1995 Gary Paulsen (P)1996 Recorded Books Difficult Situations Fiction Growing Up Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction
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For younger kids, it was a little slow to start but eventually found ourselves on the edge of our seats to find out what happens.
Good lesson on how small decisions can have an everlasting ripple.

Good short story

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This book was a very good and eye opening story about how things like a antique gun could go through such a story.

Great Book

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