Return to Hawk's Hill (Incident at Hawk's Hill, Book 2)

I bought this book to donate to our school library. I had to erase as much heavy pencil writing as I could from ALL 6 flyleaf pages. This book was usable AFTER I spent the time to make it that way!

This sequel to Incident at Hawk's Hill may be better in some ways than the first. There was more character development of the rest of the family. Although it is considered a Youth book, it is rewarding to be read by an adult.

Incident At Hawks Hill was ALWAYS a favorite of mine and of the many elementary classrooms with whom I shared it. Allan Eckert has not changed and his talents have not diminished.. I expected a lot - and I was delivered a lot. The book did not disappoint.

Loved the first book when I was young and when I was buying it for a Christmas gift I bought the sequel as well. It was well packed and came before Christmas! Great service. Thankyou!

Great Book, Grat Transaction.The continuing story of a boy taken in by a full grown female badger and protected by her.

Great book for children. And I love it also

This is a sequel to Eckert's Newbery Honor winning Incident at Hawk's Hill in which six-year-old Ben MacDonald spends a couple of months lost on the Canadian prairie and is befriended by a female badger which is adopted as a pet by the MacDonald but is shot by their neighbor, the vicious trapper George Burton who is forced to leave the community. Following the death of the badger, about a year later Burton returns and apparently intends to seek revenge against the MacDonalds. While riding home from school with his brother and two sisters, Ben, now seven, gets off the wagon to walk the rest of the way. Later, he sees Burton chasing the wagon, so to escape he runs to the river, gets in his father's rowboat, and pushes out. Soon he discovers that the oars have been removed, and caught by the current he floats downstream through dangerous rapids to Lake Winnipeg. There Ben is rescued by a Metis boy named Little Buffalo and taken to safety in one of the Metis villages along the shores of the lake. Their leader, Louis Riel, sends a couple of his warriors to Hawk's Hill to let the MacDonalds know that Ben is safe and will be returned. Meanwhile, Will and John MacDonald set out to try and find Ben. They locate the rowboat in some debris along the lakeshore, but are unsure whether he may have drowned or not. When they do not return on time, Esther MacDonald, convinced that Ben must be alive and with the Metis, takes the girls to stay with a neighbor and sets off for the Indian villages. Along the way, she is captured by George Burton who plans to sell her to the Metis as a slave. Will and John finally return home and seeing Esther's note, go off after her. Therefore, when the Indian warriors arrive at Hawk's Hill, they find no one to whom they can deliver Riel's message. Do Will and John catch up with Burton and Esther in time? How will the Metis react to Burton's offer of a slave? And what will happen to Ben? We enjoyed Incident at Hawk's Hill. While Return to Hawk's Hill doesn't have quite the same animal-lover appeal, it has more excitement of action and thus would probably be easier for young people, especially reluctant readers, to manage on their own. We did both as family read alouds and enjoyed the sequel as well. Some have objected to the somewhat long-winded "preachiness" of Louis Riel in explaining how badly the Native Americans were treated by the settlers and the Canadian government. While I find books that overemphasize these kinds of things to be annoying, it is true that Indians in both the United States and in Canada did not always receive a fair shake. It is also true that there have been some who sought to do right towards the Indians, and this book does a good job in maintaining balance on the subject. There are some references to tobacco use. The "d" word is used a couple of times by Burton, and the name of God is found a few times as an interjection, but I found Esther MacDonald's suggestion at the end, "I think we should take a moment to thank God, silently, each of us in his own way," to be satisfactory.

great

This is a wonderful book! Highly recommend it for reading to children or for adolescents to enjoy on their own.