Vanderpool, Clare. Navigating Early. New York: Delacorte, 2013. Print.
Printz Honor 2014
Navigating Early is about the right of passage journeys for two boys, Jack Baker and Early Auden. Jack has just lost his mother and his father who has been away at war for the last several years has uprooted him from his life in Kansas to a boarding school in Maine. There, Jack befriends the quirky Early Auden. Early has suffered his own losses, and as a way to find answers takes Jack on a quest to find the Great Appalachian Bear. What stars out as being Early's journey and adventure, becomes a coming of age journey for both boys. Both boys come to terms with their own losses and find an even deeper friendship and strength in each other.
One thing I absolutely loved about this book was that the boys' journey mirrors that of the number pi. I was tempted more than once to start calculating pi. It was such a clever and intriguing idea to think that numbers could tell a story of their own. That seems like it would be a great cross curricular connection to make and a fun extension activity to accompany this book.
Navigating Early is about the right of passage journeys for two boys, Jack Baker and Early Auden. Jack has just lost his mother and his father who has been away at war for the last several years has uprooted him from his life in Kansas to a boarding school in Maine. There, Jack befriends the quirky Early Auden. Early has suffered his own losses, and as a way to find answers takes Jack on a quest to find the Great Appalachian Bear. What stars out as being Early's journey and adventure, becomes a coming of age journey for both boys. Both boys come to terms with their own losses and find an even deeper friendship and strength in each other.
One thing I absolutely loved about this book was that the boys' journey mirrors that of the number pi. I was tempted more than once to start calculating pi. It was such a clever and intriguing idea to think that numbers could tell a story of their own. That seems like it would be a great cross curricular connection to make and a fun extension activity to accompany this book.
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