cover image The Winter Room

The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.99 (112pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22783-0

Narrated by the son of a Minnesota farm family sometime in the first half of the century, this ""remarkably good"" story ""will inevitably recall Laura Ingalls Wilder--but by way of Hemingway and Jim Harrison,"" said PW. Ages 10-up. (Nov.)