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Nathan Fowler #2
Bringing Ezra Back
September 1840 marks five months since twelve-year-old Nathan Fowler's life-threatening encounter with Weasel, the heartless man who stalked Nathan like a wild animal through the forest. Nathan hasn't been the same since, wary of every new person he meets – including the visiting peddler Orrin Beckwith. When Beckwith shows Nate and his family a handbill advertising a show with a "white Injun," a man without a tongue, Nathan is sure the man is his friend Ezra, who lost his tongue to Weasel's knife. Determined to save Ezra from this traveling show of "human oddities," Nathan sets out with Beckwith from Ohio to Pennsylvania. On the way, Nathan encounters more people than he's ever met before, and he begins to learn a thing or two about human nature. The biggest shock, however, is Ezra himself, and it will take more than Nathan bargained for to bring him back home. This long-anticipated sequel to Weasel is a masterful adventure story, in which Nathan Fowler triumphs over the legacy of fear left him by the villain Weasel. Bringing Ezra Back is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
160 pages, Hardcover
First published August 8, 2006
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About the author
Cynthia C. DeFelice
33 books118 followersCynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors.
Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.” Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian.
When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can’t pick just one answer: “I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new.” Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.
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Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.” Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian.
When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can’t pick just one answer: “I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new.” Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.
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December 24, 2017
DeFelice, Cynthia Bringing Ezra Back 148 p. FSG -
The Fowler family has recovered from the vicious attacks by "Weasel", though their mother passed away from a fever later. Now, a traveling peddler brings along a flyer that proclaims "See the White Injun, A man with no name and no tongue! Deaf and Dumb," and Nathan is sure that this "injun" is their old friend Ezra, who helped rescue them from Weasel. Nathan is determined to seek out this traveling show and rescue his friend, even if he has to learn to trust the world again.
After the tense danger of "Weasel", this sequel comes off as a milder entry. Though it does answer questions about Ezra, it only raises more at the end. I would prefer to have "Weasel" in hardcover and this one in paperback.
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The Fowler family has recovered from the vicious attacks by "Weasel", though their mother passed away from a fever later. Now, a traveling peddler brings along a flyer that proclaims "See the White Injun, A man with no name and no tongue! Deaf and Dumb," and Nathan is sure that this "injun" is their old friend Ezra, who helped rescue them from Weasel. Nathan is determined to seek out this traveling show and rescue his friend, even if he has to learn to trust the world again.
After the tense danger of "Weasel", this sequel comes off as a milder entry. Though it does answer questions about Ezra, it only raises more at the end. I would prefer to have "Weasel" in hardcover and this one in paperback.
EL, MS - OPTIONAL
November 22, 2022
My sixth grade students got really into this. They kept asking me to read more. I liked it, but didn’t love it. It’s a great pair with The Greatest Showman.
June 10, 2013
Beautiful story about what a boy will do for someone he cares about. No amount of money could buy the worth and value of a friend. Also. I enjoyed how Nathan's courage allowed him to bargain with the evil forces in the book. The reader will learn that every person possesses both a fighting force and a calming, peaceful force. These forces come out when necessary.
July 26, 2014
gr 4-7 147 pgs
1840, Ohio / Pennyslvania. When family friend Ezra disappears, 12 year old Nathan decides to leave his home in Ohio to travel to Pennsylvania and find him. Along the way, he finds that looks can be deceiving and help can be found in unlikely places.
An interesting follow up to "Weasel", which would appeal to readers of the first book.
1840, Ohio / Pennyslvania. When family friend Ezra disappears, 12 year old Nathan decides to leave his home in Ohio to travel to Pennsylvania and find him. Along the way, he finds that looks can be deceiving and help can be found in unlikely places.
An interesting follow up to "Weasel", which would appeal to readers of the first book.
April 21, 2012
12 yr old Nathan Fowler is intent on bring back their family's friends Ezra who helpeed them in th epast. Nathan notices Ezra is a part of a traveling side show and w/permission from his father, leaves the farm to find Ezra.
October 27, 2007
Sequel to Weasel, but not as good.
May 21, 2012
This is a great story about a boy who finds a long lost friend. D.M.
November 9, 2014
Read this for inspiration for NaNoWriMo. Some of it is set in a freak show.
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