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Title	:	The Loner
Author	:	Ester Wier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 151 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1991 by Scholastic (first published 1963)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Young Adult. Animals. Dogs. Juvenile

The Loner

Ester Wier

Paperback | Pages: 151 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 476 Users | 41 Reviews

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I just finished reading this book with my nine year old son. It was my great-grandpas book and my dad gave it to my son. So it was pretty sentimental just reading this old copy for that reason. But I thought the book was beautiful. The characters were dynamic and engaging and even the ones you only got to meet for a minute, you felt privileged to know and connected to or 'good-riddance'.
The whole story was an emotional journey that you took right along with the main character. Watching him find his name and grow to understand who he truly was and what it meant to love and be loved and show that love was just so touching.
The lessons were sweet, poignant, and powerful. I'm surprised this book doesn't have a higher rating. I wish there were more such stories.
If I had to describe this book in one word it would be: Touching.

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Original Title:	The Loner
ISBN:	0590443526 (ISBN13: 9780590443524)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal Nominee (1964), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1965)

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Ratings: 3.93 From 476 Users | 41 Reviews

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Excellent, still remember my sixth grade teacher reading this aloud.

Read the full review here: http://newberyandbeyond.com/newbery-e...The nameless protagonist of this book is a nomad. He has no family, so he lives by his wits, picking crops to raise money to convince families to let him travel with them. His goal is to get to California, but when he finds himself alone again in Montana, he latches onto a brusque sheepherder and finds out that maybe belonging isnt so bad after all. The story was definitely interesting and unusualwhats the last book you read with

I have read this many times in childhood and decided to re-read it to see if it held up. It did. It features a young boy who has no name. He is a crop picker, hopping rides from anyone who is willing towards the next field and the next crop. He has no name and no family. And he is fine with that. He is a loner.An unexpected tragedy causes him to run away, trying to find the next field on his own. Instead, he ends up in the wagon of Boss, a sheepherder. She understands sheep and is never more

Turns out that this Newbery honor that I never heard of is a good book. Lots of exciting action, especially one (very brief) horrifying scene near the beginning. Lots of feelings and coming-of-age stuff, too.I do recommend it, except of course to sensitive children.Unless you're just tired of sheep again. Is this our 4th or 5th book about shepherds in the Newbery Club!? I think I'd've given it the fourth star if I weren't so tired of reading about sheep.Btw, this edition has no illustrations.

I read this back in 1969 as a fifth grader. I don't remember much about it except for feeling so sorry for this poor boy who had no family and who depended the kindness of strangers or on finding work from day to day in order to survive.

I'm enjoying July young adult reading and all the Newbery award winning books I've read. This one is short and sappy and...wonderful!Winner of the 1963 Newbery honor, this small book is heart warming and poignant. Homeless, nameless, young and stubborn, the character has no knowledge of a family. He simply remembers fending for himself for a long, long time. With no history of anyone to assist him, he struggles to survive and he does so barely, by eking out a bare subsistence living traveling as

a selection of my reactions on rereading this book for the first time in fifteen years:"I'm gay.""this book made me gay.""I can see why this appealed to my third-grade self.""the cover of this book made me gay.""'Beyond him the road climbed another hill and upon the crest spruce trees bent in the wind and shadows spread like dark water seeping from the mountainside. The ruffled edges of the clouds had turned gold and for a moment it seemed that the whole world had become golden, the dried slopes