Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Grade Level: 9thtwelfth Grade
Topics: Coming of Age, Friendship, Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest fishing and Logging Industry, Intergenerational/Intercultural/Interclass Relationships
curb Description
Draw students into the diverse yet integrated lives of three teenagers in the sham small townsfolk of Calamus, Oregon. A recipient of the Oregon Book destine, Ricochet River, set in the 1960s, explores what it means to grow upâ€"with Wade, the local sports hero; his friend, Jesse, a Native American with an innocent disregard for local chemical formula; and Lorna, Wades sweetheart, who longs to break free of her small town ties and set out into the world beyond.
A contemporary fellow traveller to J. D. Salingers classic, The Catcher in the Rye, this novel encourages students to discover that the thoughts and dreams of fictional characters can closely resemble their own.
About the Author
Robin Cody is a freelance writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is a winner of the Western Writers of America Silver Spur Award for short nonfiction. In 1995, he won the Oregon Book Award for Voyage of a Summer Sun, an account of his boat trip from the headwaters of the Columbia to its mouth at the Pacific.
In 2005, Ricochet River was selected as one of top one hundred literary works produced in Oregon in the last ii hundred years. Mr. Cody lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Donna.
Introduction: Celilo Falls
Celilo Falls (or Wyam, heart and soul echo of falling water) was once the sixth largest falls by volume in the world. Located east of the fall Mountains on the Columbia River (the waterway that separates Oregon and Washington), the falls were originally used by Native Americans for pink-orange fishing. For 15,000 years, tribes such as the Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Nez Perce congregated around the majestic falls to catch salmon from wooden platforms with...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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