The Rifle
โ Scribed by Paulsen, Gary
- Book ID
- 109205893
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780152928803
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This tough, thought-provoking novel for young adults takes deadly aim at the oft-quoted notion: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." With subtle mastery and precision, Paulsen's novel challenges the idea that firearms don't become instruments of destruction and murder until they are placed in human hands--The Rifle makes it clear that guns do kill people. "For readers willing to think about this issue, for those looking for ways to introduce the debate, there is no better vehicle than this short, engagingly written story of one rifle and its fatal impact on one modern boy."--School Library Journal
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It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried