Marven was excited to visit his grandparents in the Great Northwoods for winter break but was dismayed when he realized there would be no internet or video games and that he would have to help his grandfather, a woodsman, with chores like chopping wood. His grandfather taught him how to snowshoe, make flapjacks, and appreciate the beauty of the vast forest landscape despite the hard work of lumberjacks.

2. Marven and the Great Northwoods
Vocabulary

4. glowered
looked annoyed

6. bonjour
hello

8. latkes
potato pancakes

10. knish
square of dough filled with potato

12. horizon
the line in which the sky
and the earth seem to meet

14. landscape
a stretch of land

16. fragrance
a sweet and pleasant odor

18. timber
trees that can be used as building wood

20. snowshoes
frames attached to shoes and used for walking
across the snow

22. lumberjacks
people who chop down trees and haul the wood to
a sawmil

24. immense
huge, very large

26. frantic
wildly excited

28. bunkhouse
building in a camp where a group of people sleep

30. flapjacks
pancakes

32. dismay
to fill with sudden concern

34. cords
measure for stacks of cut wood

36. notched
a cut shaped like a “v”

38. woodsman
a person who works or lives in a forest

40. glinting
a brief flashing, like a light