There is a lot of complexity in this short, quiet coming-of-age novel. Sensitive younger readers will be drawn in by Daniel’s story, which can be likened to a more emotional twin of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet.–Booklist
Gone From These Woods, published August 2009 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, is Athens, Georgia native Donny Bailey Seagraves’ debut children’s middle grade novel for ages 9 – 12.
Set in the woods of rural North Georgia, it’s the story of 11-year-old Daniel Sartain and his uncle, Clay. Daniel doesn’t want to go hunting that cold November morning in 1992. But he does go. The accident that happens that day changes his life forever.
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