Woods Runner By Gary Paulsen

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I read the historical fiction book Woods Runner written by Gary Paulsen,which takes place during the Revolutionary War Era. The main character, Samuel, is thirteen years old. He lives in a colony with a forest west of it. One day he is out in the forest and he sees smoke rising from where the colony is located. The colony where he and his parents lived,had been attacked. He found that the colony had been burned down and the bodies he recovered showed signs that the colony had been attacked by native americans,who worked with the British. His parents were most likely taken as prisoners by the attackers because he had not found their bodies in the colony’s ashes. He followed the assailants trail until he finally caught up to them. A different