So funny. Quick entertaining book for tween boys.

HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME
Gary Paulsen
Nonfiction Autobiography
128 pages

Gary Paulsen and his friends go out to watch a news strip. In the news strip, it says that a man had just broken the world record for the fastest person to go on skis. Carl, Gary’s best friend, was speechless after the strip. He said I can do it! They all looked at him. He said I can break the world record on skis. So they end up doing it and after things looked pretty bad for Carl. After this story other friends did other stupid/dumb things like bungee jumping, but this was the highlight of the story.

I liked this book because it told people about how kids “lived” back then. They weren’t inside watching video games, they were outside trying to find something to do, and they succeeded. The kids weren’t outside because their moms locked them out (well maybe). They were outside because there was so much to do instead of inside. I also like this book because everything was so cheap to us but expensive to them. A jacket was oh I don’t know like 5 or 6 dollars. It was really funny when they were getting things for Angel to do his ski record. They acted like it was so expensive, and it was, but to us it is cheap. The bungee jumping incident was funny too. He bounces down and into a hornets nest. Then he lands into a big muddy slimy pig pen. This book is a nonfiction book to read.

What would happen if you were on skies with a rope tied around your hand and the other end of the rope tied to the car and the car was going more than 80 miles per hour?What would happen if you were in a boxing ring trying to wrestle a bear just to impress girls?And what would happen if you were riding your bike away from a vicious dog and you jumped over like 5 clothes line but you got unlucky and almost CUT YOUR HEAD OFF?Well those are some of the things these weird boys try to do to have fun but they make small mistakes that almost kills them.I think that somewhere in this book as Mrs.Browning is reading i am going to laugh my face off.So i think that everybody in the world should read this book

I read about this book in The Book Whisperer and ordered a used copy. I'm really glad my son didn't read this when he was thirteen; then again, if he'd have read it he would have found a reason to love books! It is a laugh out loud, make you cringe, true set of stories from Gary Paulsen's life as a 12-13 year old. He and his friends are lucky to be alive - since I grew up in the days without "regulations" and when kids ruled the streets, I was able to connect with many of the stories and remember coming home battered and bruised after trying various dare-devil events. I can't wait to share this book with my seventh grade students-especially when an active boy tells me "books are boring".

I really liked this book and I would consider this book a partial autobiography of Gary Paulsen. Angel Peterson wanted to break the record for speed on skis. He got an older friend that had a car to pull him behind it while he held a rope and was riding on the skis. His friends went to an army surplus store and got Angel old pilot gear to prep him for his feat. When he was ready to go, they slowly increased the speed of the car and he kept his thumb up, which meant faster, until they got to 80 mph. At 80, he hit a dry spot in the road and was launched into the air and when he landed, he got buried in snow. After they talked to Angel, it turned out his thumb got caught in the rope so it looked like his thumb was up the whole time but he really wanted to stop way at the beginning. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good story about several mishaps in a few friends childhood.

Angel Peterson, Gary Paulsen, and their friends tried a number of daredevil stunts in their thirteenth year, and they are chronicled in hilarious detail in this book. Have you ever wondered what could happen if you tried to ski while tied to the bumper of a car? What about shooting a waterfall in a barrel, or wrestling a bear? Gary Paulsen's stories of his youth describe a time when the Army/Navy store had target kites that could be used for hang gliding and circuses had tents where you could pay a quarter to wrestle a trained bear. This is an excellent book for young readers looking for an approachable, funny book. Recommended for ages 9 to 13.

I recently finished the book How Angel Peterson got his name by: Gary
Paulsen. In this book the main charcter is Carl "Angel" Peterson. He is a very adventureous person that does dareing things. He doesn't have a lot of comon sence (this is proved in many parts of the book including where he jumps 12 feed down a waterfall inside of a barrel). In the book he shows that he is a good friend and his realationship with his friends is very strong. He also shows that he is very humble about his accomplishments. His main accomplishment in the book is when he set the world speed record on skis. I enjoyed reading this book.

Gary Paulsen gives us an absolutely hilarious account of all the reasons he and his friends—with help from the army surplus store and a healthy dose of scientific curiosity—should never have lived to be fifteen. It’s a short, quick read, and I laughed all the way through, punctuated with occasional squirms and shudders. The attempted invention of bungee jumping in the last chapter was perhaps my favorite episode, but there were a lot of real doozies.

I've always LOVED Gary Paulsen, and this book appears to be somewhat of a "sequel" to his hit "Harris & Me"...one of the funniest books I've EVER read! Anyway, "Angel Peterson" is another autobiographical book about Gary's adventures as a young boy in Minnesota. It's literally laugh-out-loud funny, and it's a true miracle that none of the boys died as a result of their "childhood curiosity". I'd recommend this for 4th graders through adults. A very quick read filled with laughs!

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great book. super funny. teaches you a lesson not to be stupid the things you do.

HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME
The title of the book is HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME. the authors name is Gary Paulsen,i liked the book beacause it had alot of action in it and i really like action. The main setting was outside in the winter time. The main character was Carl Peterson,the main conflict is that hes trying to break the world record, his goal is to be the fastest man to be on skis he manages to break the record but he ended up hurting his head he hit his hso hard that he said he could hear angels singing and that is how he got his name. I would recommend this book to all the people that are always bored because this is a really fun and entertaining book.