Snow Bound

by Harry Mazer

Book Overview

At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440961343
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Wilderness Escape Books

I read "Cold River" after the German translation came out and after the TV movie had been shown. Once I had watched it, I had to read the book. I even went to Cold River in the Adirondacks in 1994, but in order to get to the spot where the book takes place, one needs to ride on horseback (ask at Cold River Ranch, they offer horses). That did lead me to read Harry Mazer's "The Island Keeper" (an even better wilderness book about a girl surviving all by herself on an island in a huge lake...Mazer wrote the book in 1981) which unfortunately never became a movie although one reader mentioned a movie, but when I checked us.imdb.com, Harry Mazer is not in their database. "Snowbound" is another Harry Mazer book I can recommend to everybody who enjoyed "Cold River" and "The Island Keeper". If you are interested in some other great wilderness book escapes, read Anne LaBastille's autobiographies "Woodswoman" and "Beyond Black Bear Lake". The Canadian author Kathrene Pinkerton wrote some great wilderness books for kids and 3 autobiographies which I absolutely love and keep rereading! I forgot the name of the author who wrote "My Side of the Mountain" (there are two sequels) which became an even better movie film. And last, but not least there is Gary Paulsen who wrote two great books about Brian who survived an airplane crash and ended up being lost in the wilderness in winter (good books, good movie).

snow bound

Snow bound. I like the book because it made me want to read on and on. The reason why I picked this book was because the cover interested me. The first couple of chapters were boring, but then became exciting.The theme was not to run away and bad things can happen. Be careful of what you wish for. A boy Tony finds a dog and want to keep it, but his parents don't want it, and kick it out of the house. Tony runs away because he's angry at his parents. He meets another run-away named Cindy. They get lost in the middle of nowhere after a fight. This story is believable because people can get into fights and get lost. The characters are believable because they behave like normal teenagers. I would recommend this book to people because it's an interesting story that makes you want to read and read to find out what is going to happen.

SNOW

Tony Laporte finds himslelf in a very tricky situation after he crashes his car in a big snow storm with a person that he can no get along with named Cindy. This is book is very good. At the start it seems like it takes off and get you started with the whole book. Once you pick it up it is hard to put it back down. I gave it a five star rating because I thought that it was a great book. The way that the author explained things just helped me make more sense of the book. If you are a person that likes some action in a book this book is probably for you.

Very Exciting

I had to read this book for school, and I really liked it. It told a lot of the hardships that Tony and Cindy went through when they were lost. It also gave me some idea's about what to do if I am ever in that situation. It had some twists like when the snowmobilers came and past, not even seeing them. If I had been in that situation I would have been bored out of my mind, and scared out of my wits. I recommend this to anyone who likes stories about survival.

IT ROCKS

this book snow bound is an excellent survial book that shows how you could make it threw the wilderness and the really cold winters just surving on cookies and melted snow to heat you. this book is such a great book. i sugest everyone read it in the usa who loves the wild and edge of the seat advengers!