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Walk the Wild Road
by
Nigel Hinton
PRAISE FOR "Walk the Wild Road"
""Nigel Hinton is an inspired storyteller. Leo's walk along the wild road will captivate you as it did me. This is a wonderful tale!"" -Bernard Cornwell, International Bestselling author of Historical Fiction
""This is an uplifting, touching, and at times heart-wrenching novel that addresses the issues of class and religious discrimination as...more
""Nigel Hinton is an inspired storyteller. Leo's walk along the wild road will captivate you as it did me. This is a wonderful tale!"" -Bernard Cornwell, International Bestselling author of Historical Fiction
""This is an uplifting, touching, and at times heart-wrenching novel that addresses the issues of class and religious discrimination as...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
January 1st 2011
by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
(first published October 1st 2009)
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Author Nigel Hinton grew up hearing how his grandfather left his large, poor family from Poland at the age of 11 to seek his way in the world. His book, Walk the Wild Road, fictionalizes the family legend and imagines what could have set a boy off into the world on his own.
Leo’s family is desperately poor, and when his mom becomes pregnant with a new baby, all the older children must look for work. But times are hard, and there is not much work to be found. Leo’s younger sister finds a place in...more
Leo’s family is desperately poor, and when his mom becomes pregnant with a new baby, all the older children must look for work. But times are hard, and there is not much work to be found. Leo’s younger sister finds a place in...more
It's hard not to like young Leo. When the ten-year-old boy rescues two lambs, he is caught, whipped, and ready to go on trial when a kindly neighbor helps him escape. He can't go home because his family will end up being held responsible so he sets off across Poland in 1870 to reach a ship where he can hire on and head for America. Once there, he plans to send his money back home to help his family. But Leo's road is not exactly a straight one, and he ends taking several detours and becoming fri...more
Walk The Wild Road takes us to a world that most of us can barely imagine. Where class is everything and the aristocracy can essentially sentence someone to death for petty wrongs and grudges. Where drought and famine force loving parents to sell their children to keep the whole family from starving. Where the hope of a better life in America is worth risking you life for.
Leo is a young boy (about 12) in Prussia (now Poland) in 1870. He is the oldest child of a large family of poor farmers. Year...more
Leo is a young boy (about 12) in Prussia (now Poland) in 1870. He is the oldest child of a large family of poor farmers. Year...more
Review Posted on Reading Lark 6/22/11: http://readinglark.blogspot.com/2011/...
Walk the Wild Road is one of the best middle grades novels I have read in some time. It will also appeal to young adult readers and historical fiction fans. Nigel Hinton draws upon his family history to create the story of Leo, a young boy living in Prussia in the late 1800's, who is forced to leave behind his family and home after he fights with the son of a wealthy landowner. This book is one of adventure and hope....more
Walk the Wild Road is one of the best middle grades novels I have read in some time. It will also appeal to young adult readers and historical fiction fans. Nigel Hinton draws upon his family history to create the story of Leo, a young boy living in Prussia in the late 1800's, who is forced to leave behind his family and home after he fights with the son of a wealthy landowner. This book is one of adventure and hope....more
‘Walk the Wild Road’ is a perfect middle grade adventure novel. Nigel Hinton uses straightforward language to tell Leo’s story, but he focuses on very serious subject matters. Right from the beginning Leo’s conditions of living are pretty devastating and his situation is quite drastic. The story is about Leo’s journey and about his survival. There are plenty of scary and sad situations described throughout the book, but there are fun and sweet moments as well.
The book features a whole cast of in...more
The book features a whole cast of in...more
Walk the Wild Road is a middle grade historical adventure set in 1870 Prussia (now Poland) during the on set of war with France and follows one young boy's incredible quest to reach America. While a work of fiction, the novel was inspired by how the author's own grandfather made his way to the United States.
Leo is a very shy, yet caring and courageous young character who has to rely heavily on his likability and sweet face to get food and shelter as he travels across Prussia. The things he has t...more
Leo is a very shy, yet caring and courageous young character who has to rely heavily on his likability and sweet face to get food and shelter as he travels across Prussia. The things he has t...more
Walk the Wild Road is a fantastic historical fiction/adventure book. The main character Leo has to go trough a lot before he finally gets what he wants. It’s really heartbreaking to read his story. Especially when he finds a friend and then something bad happens. Not going to tell you much about it, but it's so sad. I was crying a lot when it happened. Walk the Wild Road is such a great book and you should def. put it on your tbrlist.
An adventure-historical fiction novel based on the author's family history. At times riveting, sad, funny, and heartwrenching, this is a truly great example of historical fiction. All of the characters are so achingly real. There are important themes discussed here, such as war, classism, poverty, universal goodwill, religious prejudice, and persuing our dreams with resilience.
This was a great middle grade reader like every other reviewer has said. Overall the book was happy and optimistic, but it had plenty of reality within the adventures too. I love the friendships that Leo develops, the family he comes from and the ability to overcome obstacles. Lots of great discussion themes in this little classic.
I thought the book had many incosistencies and did not seem very historically accurate.
This was a student recommend. It takes place in one of the slavic countries back when people were oppressed, forced to leave their homes to find work, and moving en masse in search of food. Wait! That was today! Maybe that's why this book appealed. It was full of ingenuity--desperate people coping with desperate times.
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