Full name: Martin Marten: A Novel

Author: Brian Doyle Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Award winners, Young adult, Animals Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781250045201 9781250081056 1250045207 125008105X

Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a small animal of the deep woods, of the otter/mink family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well. As Martin and Dave's paths cross on forest trails and rocky mountaintops, they--and we--witness the full, unknowable breadth and vast sweep of life, and the awe-inspiring interconnectedness of the world and its many inhabitants, human and otherwise. Martin Marten is a coming-of-age tale like no other, told in Brian Doyle's joyous, rollicking style. Similar books: Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby Mink River by Brian Doyle Joy School by Elizabeth Berg Towelhead by Alicia Erian Cambridge by Susanna Kaysen Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti A Dog's Life by Ann M. Martin Black Gold by Marguerite Henry The Plover by Brian Doyle Snot Stew by Bill Wallace Out of the ashes by Michael Morpurgo The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Fog Within by Nick Shamhart One Good Dog by Susan Wilson Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick Unsaid by Neil Abramson Gym Candy by Carl Deuker