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The Dreamcatcher

by Betty Bevan

182 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); black and white illustrations; catalogue #05-2729; ISBN 1-4120-7831-8; US$16.00, C$18.40, EUR13.14, £9.20

Country kids entangled in web of misguided teacher, arbitrary government, and modern technology. Real-life solution from cameo role of a well-known horsemanship author. Quiet story for refuge.

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The Dreamcatcher is a story about a couple of kids: seventh-grader Angie Campbell; her brother, fifth-grader Ethan; and their classmates. They live in remote cattle-ranching territory in the Western United States and attend a two-room school. Their teacher comes from the city and is eager to promote his 1990's college textbook views on how to care for the world. This is in conflict with the wise management practices the people in rich cattle and timber areas of the country have developed and learned from their fathers and grandfathers. The teacher has ideas of his own, as does the U.S Forest Service, regarding the cattle grazing on public land. The Campbells and their neighbors believe that their livelihood is in danger of being lost.

A new neighbor moves onto the small ranch next to the Campbells'; a disappointment to Angie's dream of another chum her age; but Ethan's quiet sense of humor carries him along with a wait-and-see attitude for the new neighbor. Both Angie and Ethan will find the newcomer to be an unexpected and unusual source of education and help: encouragement for Angie to keep writing poems and developing her imagination--an imagination that saw a dreamcatcher in a suprising object; and rescue for Ethan.

Fictional settings and characters are combined with a real person and her true anecdotes about animals, to produce a peaceful and unique story for children. This is a book that holds the reader's interest, increases the stduents vocabulary, and offers subtle humorous situations.

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About the Author

Betty Bevan was raised by horses, dogs, cats, and unusual living situations with the guidance of her unique mother. Betty and her husband now enjoy retirement life caring for a home, horse, cats and forest land on a small timber acreage in Northeast Oregon.

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