Navigating Early

Navigating Early

By: Luke Kroeger

Charaters

Early Auden:

• Early Auden is a boy around the age of Jack. Early is a strange boy who always says whats on his mind, who looks at the number Pi as a story and has an extraordinary ability in math

Conflict

Jack Baker:

• Jack is a thirteen-year-old boy who is distant from his father and who's mother died. Jack got sent to a boarding school in Maine where he met Early Auden. Jack is a shy person who doesn't make to many friends at the boarding school

Eary and Jack are having many troubles on their quest to find the appalchian bear that Early thinks willl lead them to find his lost brother Fisher, But they have a pirate Archibal MacScott,stalking them and bringing them more struggles to deal with so he can find the bear first himself and kill it. Once they find Fisher he told them to go back home and that he wanted to stay because he was raining on the inside.

Jack's Father:

• Jack's father has been away from Jack for a total of four years because he is a naval captain. When Jack's dad finally comes back, its only because he is taking Jack to his new school.

Setting

Point of View

Navigating Early

Reconmmendation

Symbolism

Place:

• This book takes place in a boarding school in Maine. Although, in the book, it also mentions Kansas which is where Jack used to live.

I really liked this book , I would give it five stars. Navigating Early had all my favourite things I like in a book, adventure, action, imagination, lots of conflict, craziness, friendship.

Navigating Early is told in first person from the perspective of the protagonist Jack Baker. The story is told from the point of view of 13-year-old Jack who has just lost his mother unexpectedly and has been transplanted from his home in Kansas to a boys’ boarding school in Maine. His father is a military man who is stationed in Portsmouth and selects the boarding school that is closest to him.

Time:

• The year is 1945 and the end of World War II has come. Throughout the book, the author takes you through certain days of Jack's life at the boarding school.

I like books that make me think, and that have things that i can relate to in life. This was defintely a book that made me think. the imagery was perfect, the details were so clear, I could imagine it perfectly in my mind.

Theme

Mood:

• Navigating Early is an adventurous, hopeful book that is exciting and uplifting at some parts and sad and gloomy at other times.

By: Clare Vanderpool

The theme of Navigating Early is True Friendship. True Friendship is important when your new to a city and school. Like Jack he doesn't know anybody in Maine and he has to go to a brand new Boarding School. Then, he meets a true friend.

Summary of Plot

After World War II Jack Baker a boy from Kansas, is immediately deported from Kansas to Maine After his mother's death, and is placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack meets Early a strange boy that tells the number pi as a story through the numbers.