Victor: A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron

by Mordicai Gerstein

Book Overview

"As the French revolutionaries begin time anew with year one of the new calendar, a feral child, who has somehow survived on his own in the wild, is delivered into the hands of Jean-Marc-Gaspard... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374381429
• ISBN13: 9780374381424
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Must Read

This book is a must read for teachers, therapists, and anyone who works with children--especially damaged children. The educational approach is fascinating; the description of the boy's experience is touching. Just for clarity, this is a book for ADULT readers, not for children. Gerstein wrote a picture book on this subject (THE WILD BOY) which is appropriate and enjoyable for children.

Recommended for teachers AND students!

Victor is one of the best books I've read in a long time (and I read a LOT). The issues presented will have readers talking and thinking about society, education, humankind, and mental health for a very long time.

Flowing chapters, you can tell there was lots of research.

WOW! This book was great! It didn't have much action, or much plot...but I learned a lot from the book. Like about geography, and other lil things. It was exactly five stars, but I thought a four would do it.