Mr. Tucket

by Gary Paulsen

Book Overview

Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440411335
• ISBN13: 9780440411338
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Mr. Tucket, A book you want to read!

Gary Paulsen's Mr. Tucket is an exciting story of capture and escape, friendship, loyalty, and perseverance. If you love the romance of the Old West, you'll love this book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, and you can't stop turning the pages.Francis Alphonse Tucket celebrated his fourteenth birthday while traveling with his parents and little sister in a wagon train bound for Oregon. His father had secretly brought along a Lancaster rifle as a surprise birthday present. Francis loved the rifle, but he strayed a little too far behind the wagon train practicing his aim. He didn't even get to eat his birthday cake! About the time he noticed the wagon train was out of sight, a band of Pawnee Indians showed up and captured him. They fled like the wind to their village, erasing the signs of their passage so rescuers wouldn't be able to track Francis. At the Pawnee village, Francis was treated poorly, then lost hope when a raiding party came back with a doll that looked just like the one his sister had. It was at this sad time that Francis saw a white man riding boldly into the village. He was Jason Grimes, a one-armed Mountain Man. He was leading two pack horses loaded with goods to trade to the Indians for their furs. Francis was quickly exiled out of sight by the Indians, but Mr. Grimes had seen him. After a long session of spirited trading with the Indians in which he got most of them drunk, Mr. Grimes found Francis and released him, and helped him escape. Francis rode off barely holding on to a galloping Indian pony, heading for a place where Mr. Grimes said he would meet Francis. The rest of the story is just as exciting as the beginning. Francis runs in and out of trouble, while learning how to survive in the wilderness and how to stand up for himself. Jason Grimes plays a large role in the story, but Francis is the star.This first book is one of five in the series about Francis Tucket, so there is a lot to look forward to, and plenty of questions to be answered. Did his family make it to Oregon? Will Francis ever see them again, or will he become a Mountain Man like Jason Grimes, living off the land and trading with the Indians? You'll have to read it to find out!

Mr. Tucket. A Wild Adventure!

A Wild Adventure (Mr. Tucket) is a book by Gary Paulsen. I read this book because I love the books that Gary Paulsen writes. I recommended this book to others because it is about a boy on a wagon train that goes on a wild adventure and gets captured by??? Well I better let you read this book to find out what happens. I relate to this book because I am part Indian, and it is a really cool and neat book to read. A book that reminds me of this book is Hatchet. It's about a boy who goes to see his dad a gets in a plane crash and he has to live in the wilderness for a long time. He has to eat fish, catch his own food, and build his own house.

Mr. Tucket

This was a very good book by Gary Paulsen. It was interesting and had lots of action. I would recomed this book to anybody. I think they would enjoy it. This book started out with a boy named Francis Tucket. He lived in a wagon train that was headed to Oregon. One day for his birthday he got a rifle. One day he fell behind the wagon and was shooting his rifle when he was picked out by indians. They took him back to there camp and he became part of there tribe. Then a mountain man by the name of Mr.Grimes told him how to escape and were to meet him in a couple of days. So francis escaped and meet Mr. Grimes and they went of into the countryside. The first stop they made was at a pawnee villiage Mr.Grimes was freinds with the pawnees so they let him pass through. Then they arived at Spot Jonnies place. They stayed there for 3 weeks and then left in search of a good hunting place for beaver. They found a place and built a house there. The next fall they put out the beaver traps and when they were done they had 200 beaver pelts. One day when Mr.Tucket was ridding his horse he was attacked by indians. So Mr.Tucket and Mr.Grimes ran away from the indians. They meet a wagon trail that had been atacked by indians so Mr.Grimes went to kill bride the indian. Francis followed him and Mr.Grimes killed the indian. The Francis decided he wanted to go back to oregon with the wagons so he left Mr.Grimes and went back to his family. The characters in this story were very good. They were very well planed and fit the story well. You could really picture the senery in your mind of were they are at and the setting around them. This is a great book and i enjoyed it.

Mr.Tucket

Mr.Tucket, by Gary Paulsen, is by far his greatest book yet. It is about Francis Tucket who is in a wagon train bound for Oregon. He falls behind the train to practice shooting his new gun, and is captured by a groupe of indians. With the help of Jason Grimes (a one armed mountian man), he escapes the savages and learns the way of the mountians. There are two more sequels to this book, and I hope G.Paulsen will write another.

A hard-nosed coming-of-age adventure story

This book tells a tale about a boy who leaves his wagon train to try out his new rifle when he is suddenly captured by a group of Pawnee Indians and is taken back to their camp. He is rescued by a gritty mountain man known as Mr. Grimes. Francis Tucket along with his name, changes his life. This book gives you a clear view of how there are many stops and starts on the journey to manhood.