The Weirdo [Paperback]

The book I read was "The Weirdo," by Theodore Taylor. Its about this weirdo that falls in love for the care of bears and wants to extend the ban another 5 years. This is a Fiction book. The time it takes place is somewhere in the 1990`s. It takes place in a dark moist swamp. It also takes place at Sam`s home inside and out, and at the hunters meeting that Sam`s father, the Bo`sun, conjured up. The meeting was to try and convince people that they should kill the bears since they strip and ruin their juicy apple trees and destroy their beautiful yard.
Sam is a brave shy girl who is 16 years old. She had recently met a boy named Chip. They met by Sam yelling she was up on the roof. After she got over the shock of seeing his scarred face all the time, they became very close friends. Chip has been helping a graduate student, Tom Telford, from NC State, keep track of the bears. When he learns there are hardly any more bears left in the community, he decides he wants to try and extend the ban another 5 years before the hunters hunt and kill all the bears left. Then one day when Tom was heading through the swamp to visit his girlfriend, a poacher kidnapped him and supposedly murdered him. Sam thinks there might be a connection between Tom Telford and Alvin Howell. As you can see, Sam and Chip are very important characters in the story.
I think other kids and adults should read "The Weirdo" because it is a pretty good book to read and has a lot of suspense in it. The author put a lot of detail into the book so that we could understand parts of the book we didn't understand, like, he had to know a lot of information about bears and how to capture them in traps. Thats why I think people who like stories with lots of suspense, detail, and emotion should read this book.
My favorite part was towards the end of the book. It was when Sam`s Uncle Jack and Aunt Peaches came back from their vacation and started yelling their heads off at her because of the condition Buck (their dog) was in. That is my favorite part of the book. Thanks for using your time to read this!

I liked this book because it grabbed me and made me read more and more. It kept me interested most of the way through. The downside of this book was that it was boring in some parts. Some parts were hard to understand and slow. This book was creepy and I like those kinds of books. I got so creeped out that I had to stop reading.

I recommend this book to young adults because it's pretty easy to understand and it wasn't that big of a book. If you like mysteries this is the book for you! It's also kind of creepy so it's good for people who like creepy books.