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Great friendships in literature work their way into our hearts and minds in lasting ways. Who can think of Huckleberry Finn without Jim, or Sherlock Holmes without Doctor Watson? Now Sid Hite has created his own unforgettable duo.
Stick is a Civil War veteran, down on his luck and searching for his long-lost sweetheart. Whittle is an orphan on the lam, looking to repay the world a favor he claims to owe. When the two meet up out West, they become partners in a gamboling adventure that includes a high-stakes kidnapping and a dramatic rescue mission.
In this funny, big-hearted novel, Sid Hite employs tall tale, adventure, romance, and his own brand of magical realism to perform a marvelous feat of storytelling.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-8-When Melvin Fitchett, a Civil War veteran and former cattle man, meets Melvin Smyte on the Texas prairie in 1872, he is amused by the teen's antics. It isn't long before he names the boy, "Whittle," and the two become traveling partners. Big Melvin, soon to be nicknamed "Stick," leads his new friend across the prairie, avoiding the congested Chisholm Trail. Bandits and Commanches supposedly abound in this territory and the men endure long stretches of hard riding to avoid them. Here, the pace of the story is slow as the buddies get to know one another. The reserved and intelligent Stick holds on to the slim hope of finding his lost love, Evelyn, who believes he died in the war. Whittle, on the other hand, is an endearing character who provides comic relief even though his past is anything but cheery. When he meets Brings the Rain, a Cheyenne girl, he is love struck and deeply affected by the brief encounter. The real excitement occurs in the second half of the book, when Stick learns that Evelyn has been kidnapped and the two set out, with the help of their Indian friends, to rescue her. Peppered with challenging vocabulary, this lighthearted Western satisfies a need in this genre, which could use such a treasure for this audience.-Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Seasoned with the same tall-tale flavor as the author's Dithers books, this tongue-in-cheek post-Civil War novel combines rip-roaring adventure with Hite's familiar themes of unrequited love, enduring friendship and the mysterious power of fate. Two strangers named Melvin are down on their luck when they meet on the Great Staked Plains of north Texas, team up and take on the nicknames of the title. Whittle, who claims to be 16, has just narrowly escaped the Chicago fire; Stick, 27 and an ex-Confederate soldier, is searching for his old sweetheart, who believes he was killed in the war. In their travels, the pair makes the acquaintance of two Cheyenne Indians, wise Talking Rock and his beautiful young granddaughter, Brings the Rain. The pace gains considerable momentum when Stick learns the whereabouts of his lost love (she has been kidnapped by bandits). While it's pretty clear that the good guys will emerge victorious and the bad guys will get their just deserts, readers will want to follow Hite's labyrinth of curious plot developments (e.g., at one point, Whittle is carried off by a twister). Hite's offbeat western is sure to draw new fans as they relish the book's dry humor, colorful language and passel of surprises. Ages 10-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Middle School) The probability that two individuals named Melvin would both travel along the Chisholm Trail not long after the Civil War is not so great. The probability that they will happen upon each other at an isolated panhandle campsite is even less so. And the probability that this auspicious meeting will signal the beginning of both a beautiful friendship and an entertaining adventure stretches credulity. But go ahead and stretch it, and enjoy the ride along the way. Stick, a.k.a. Melvin the elder, and Whittle, the younger Melvin, each has his own demons to face. The former must lay to rest his grim memories of the horrific battle near Wilderness Tavern where he lost his best friend and was mistakenly taken for dead; the latter struggles with his self-imposed guilt for having possibly started the Chicago Fire. Mile after mile they slowly reveal these individual misfortunes; Stick also discloses his purpose for the journey: he wants to find Evelyn, his sweetheart of eight years ago, set her straight that he's still alive, and see if they might still have a life together. Whittle goes along because, as he says, ""basically, I owe the world a favor."" Their quest begins in earnest when Stick, for whom luck is ""the most important force in the universe,"" discovers by sheer good fortune that a newspaper item about a recently kidnapped governess refers to none other than his own long-lost Evelyn. Stick and Whittle plan a raid and, with the help of an old Indian and his granddaughter, rescue Evelyn and her charge. Stock characters, typically a staple of the genre, are here in abundance: the damsel in distress, the taciturn and heroic Indians, the lone cowboy, the hapless sidekick, and the patent medicine salesman. Hite's laidback tone leaves no doubt that all will end happily, and his tongue-in-cheek telling defines the adventure as a diversionary romp. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
=Two lone travelers help each other their achieve hearts desires in this leisurely, character-rich western from an always interesting author. Melvin Fitchett has spent the eight years since the Civil Wars end haunted by battle nightmares, and searching for his sweetheart Evelyn, who believes him dead. On the North Texas plains he hooks up with young Melvin Smyte, a Chicago orphan with a guilty secret and a profound need for friendship. Dubbing each other Stick and Whittle, respectively, the two Melvins set off for Kansas, discovering when they reach Wichita City that Evelyn, now a governess, and her 11-year-old charge have been kidnapped by a feared desperado. Hite (Cecil in Space, 1999) develops a fizzy chemistry between saturnine Stick and his garrulous, mercurial sidekick as they lope across wide prairies, conversing on topics deep and silly, finding sturdy allies in an old Cheyenne warrior and his beautiful daughter, risking their lives in a quixotic rescue. Though the climax is a wild, fiery, horse-stampeding shoot-em-up with a generous body count at the end, the overall tone here is just this side of serious. Whittle not only survives a sudden brief ride in a tornado, for instance, but earns Sticks awed respect when he admits to having started an accidental fire that sent his entire hometown up in flames. Because the good guys are so likable, and the bad guys little more than cardboard figures, readers will find this an amiable ramble, finished off with a heartwarming double romance. (Fiction. 11-13)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5^-8. When 27-year-old Melvin Fitchett, a Civil War veteran searching for his long-lost sweetheart, meets 16-year-old orphan Melvin Smyte in Comanche territory, the two Melvins decide to travel together, and take the nicknames Stick and Whittle to avoid confusion. So begins a fast friendship and a fast-moving romp that incorporates kidnapping, Indians, romance, and a daring rescue. Hite juggles many elements in this playful, good-natured western, using the relationship between the two Melvins to cement it together. He even successfully stretches reality (a tornado magically deposits Whittle in front of his lost sweetheart with nary a bruise) without losing the reader. The Indians are sympathetically portrayed, with a few words of their language included. The somewhat stilted tone is true to the western tradition and the times portrayed, but it may limit readership. Still, this is an adventurous, funny romp that some children will like; try it with middle-schoolers looking for historical fiction to fit an assignment on westward expansion. --Debbie Carton