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Paulsen, Gary

How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales of Extreme Sports

113 pp. | Random/Lamb | January, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-385-72949-9 $$12.95 | Library ISBN 0-385-90090-2 $$14.99

(2) 4-6 This is Paulsen's take on extreme sports, 1950s-style, when a few supplies from the army surplus and equal measures of guts and teenage lunacy were all it took to fly over town on a giant kite, wrestle bears, and hitch skateboard rides off the bumpers of Hudsons. The book is awash in nostalgia and goes off on many tangents but never loses its cranked-up pace and comic tone.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003