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This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of lawn boy by gary paulsen. In the lawn boy, a twelveyear old boy from minnesota who gets a lawn mower from his grandmother on his twelfth birthday. Although we didnt finish the book together on trip, 7th grade student. Lawn boy and millions of other books are available for instant access. Lawn boy, by gary paulsen, character chart by smart. For his twelfth birthday, lawn boy gets an old riding mower from his grandmother. A minor nitpick, this book does have the main character dealing with some. With lawn boy, bainbridge islands jonathan evison may. Young mike is an idealist and readers adults and young adults alike will be rooting for him to upend the systems that seem to. An easy to use chart to record information about the various characters in the book. But he also clearly cares deeply for the characters about whom he writes, and lawn boy is also a profoundly humanistic and hopeful novel at its core. Mike lives in washington state and loves landscaping. His grandmother gives him a riding lawn mower for his birthday.
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