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9781429981965

Buck Fever

by Willis, Cynthia Chapman
  • ISBN13:

    9781429981965

  • ISBN10:

    1429981962

  • Copyright: 2009-10-27
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
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Summary

Twelve-year-old Joey MacTagert's dad wants his son to carry on the family tradition of hunting. But Joey has "buck fever"he can't pull the trigger on a deer, and hates the idea of killing animals. He's more interested in art and hockey, two activities that his dad barely acknowledges. #xA0; Joey's dad wants him to use his special skill in tracking to hunt down the big antlered buck that roams the woods near their home. Joey knows how to track Old Buck, but has kept secret from his father the reason he's gained the deer's trust. When trouble between his parents seems to escalate, Joey and his older sister, Philly, find themselves in the middle of tensions they don't fully understand. Joey wants to keep the peace, and if conquering his buck fever will do it, he has to try.

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Dad returns to the kitchen, drops a jacket and boots onto a chair seat. “Today will be a lot different than all the other times we’ve been in the woods, son.” He attaches a nine-inch hunting knife, in its sheath, to his belt. “No searching out deer paths and food sources, no more just watching the habits of bucks. This day is about the hunt.”
 
He grabs his fluorescent-orange vest from the back of the chair and pulls the vest over his camouflage tan and brown jacket as he moves to my right.  If you ask me, he hates the hearing aid crammed into my left ear. It’s an advertisement that his only son has a defect. No, he’s never said this. But the fifth in Joseph Morgan MacTagert the fifth means I’m supposed to be a copy of Dad, the next in a long line of Joseph Morgan MacTagerts, all hunters. No one has to spell this out for me . . .
 
“Thanks, Dad.” I try to come off as thrilled. This isn’t easy. The jacket and the boots highlight that I’m not as big as Dad was at twelve. Having a five-foot no inches son weighing in at eighty-five pounds (wearing every sweatshirt I own) and sporting a hearing aid can’t thrill him.

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