Everything you need to understand or teach Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen.
Like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and many other novels for adolescents, Harris and Me is a book about a special summer. It is rich in autobiographical overtones of Paulsen's own youth when problems with his alcoholic parents sent him at various times to stay with relatives. Me, the unnamed elevenyear-old narrator of the story, finds himself living on the isolated Larson farm far from the friendly town he is used to. The...