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Since: Dec, 1969
19th Sep, 2011 07:39:36 PM
The first one sounds like either The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton or The Body by Stephen King, which was made into the movie Stand by Me. I don't know what the second one is.
I have two:
- A YA book I read for a report in middle school. I barely remember anything about it except that there was a group of kids who were in the woods for whatever reason (lost?), and I think there was a motorcycle gang they had to avoid? I literally only remember one scene that was probably at the end of a chapter, where they're all talking or arguing and then they hear the sounds of the motorcycles through the trees and it shuts them up. Or something. Sorry. I just have the leftover mental image in my head and it drives me crazy sometimes.
- A short story we read, also in middle school, as part of a "man vs. nature" unit. It was a Western (I remember having "mesa" as a vocab word for the nine hundredth time) about a guy who's supposed to be bringing a flock of sheep somewhere with an older partner, but at the beginning he shoots the partner so he can do the job on his own and get paid both their shares. The rest of the story is about this plan blowing up in his face. It ends with him falling off a ledge onto a rock and breaking his back (I think he was trying to get to a tree growing near it because he was out of water). I remember it as being pretty graphic about his dying agony.