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Adult/High School A well-written, if somewhat dark, novel. It's 1967 on a northern Wisconsin farm, and 8-year-old Billy Lucas watches as his 17-year-old brother, Jimmy, shoots a snapping turtle in the jaw. The ultrasensitive child tries to save the wounded animal, an action that becomes a metaphor throughout the book. The childless couple next door, Ernie and Rosemary Morriseau, treat the neglected boys as their own. Ernie is half Native American and deemed inferi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More