Lost In The Barrens Summary

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The title of my book is Lost in the Barrens. Its a fiction book by Farley Mowat that contains 244 pages. The main characters are Awain Meewasin and Jamie MacNair. Awasin is a boy whos dad goes on a hunt every year with Jamie’s Uncle. Jamie is a boy who’s parents died when he was little so he went to a boarding school and then got transferd to is Uncle Angus MacNair.

This book is about two boys who got lost in the wild for 4-5 months. They had to try and find away to survive and try to find there way home. They ran into many situations and made some new friends. When the boys where on the trip Alphonse Meewasin and Angus MacNair where worried and thought they where tooked by the Eskimos. At the end of the book they met an Eskimo boy named
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The book takes place in Toronto and in the wilderness. The boy survive fierce winter’s and lots of rapids.

The climax is when Jamie and Awasin Get caught in the bilizard and have to wait till it is gone. The boys realsed they had to make a shelter and or find one. They faced many challenges and one of them is Jamie passed out from the cold and the boys could not open there eyes. The boys saw a wolverine and got atacked by a bear. It was a hard time for the boys to go through this kind of situation because Jamie was never advised how to survive in the wild and Awasin has never gone on the hunt with his dad Alphones.

The resolution is when Peetyuk found the boys and brought them home on there dog sled. Peetyuk ended-up become a brother to Awasin and Jamie. They got there first kill and brought home some tresaures for the house and for there friends. Uncle Angus was super happy to have Peetyuk in the family and very happy they all found there way home.

My faivorte part of the book is when Jamie and Awasin found the two sled dogs. The dogs where very usefull in there situation and brought Jamie, Awasin and Petyuk home from the long hard adventure they

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