RASCAL by Sterling North (1963) {FerraBit}

Read by . . : Jim Weiss
Publisher . : Listening Library (2008)
ISBN-10 . . : B013TKAQU6
ISBN-13 . . : 9780807209561
Format . . .: MP3. 4 tracks.
Size: . . . : 127 MB
Bitrate . . : 64 kbps (Stereo, CBR, 44.1 kHz)
Source . . .: MP3 CD (4.7 hrs)
Genre . . . : Classics Juvenile Fiction Children's Animals
Unabridged .: Unabridged

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Description:

Who could resist living for a year with a raccoon who is just about your best friend?

In this delightful memoir, Sterling North recalls his year with Rascal - a very mischievous and resourceful raccoon. Sterling, a boy of 11, watches in amazement as this baby raccoon, barely the size of Sterling's hand, instinctively washes everything before eating it. Sterling knows that every night Rascal will sneak into the house by hooking his claws onto the back screen door and then heading straight for Sterling's bed!

Virtually everywhere Sterling goes, Rascal is there, and life is filled with one adventure after another.
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Wikipedia:
Subtitled "a memoir of a better era", North's book is about adolescent angst. Rascal chronicles young Sterling's loving yet distant relationship with his father, dreamer David Willard North, and the aching loss represented by the death of his mother, Elizabeth Nelson North. (The book also touches on young Sterling's concerns for his older brother Herschel, off fighting in World War I in Europe.) The boy reconnects with society through the unlikely intervention of his pet raccoon, a "ringtailed wonder" charmer. The book begins with the capture of the baby raccoon, and follows his growth to a yearling.

The story is also a personal chronicle of the era of change between the (nearly) untouched forest wilderness and agriculture; between the days of the pioneers and the rise of towns; and between horse-drawn transportation and automobiles, among other transitions. The author recounts through the eyes of himself as a boy his observations during expeditions in and around his home town, contrasted with his father's reminiscences of the time "when Wisconsin was still half wilderness, when panthers sometimes looked in through the windows, and the whippoorwills called all night long", provide a glimpse of the past, as the original subtitle suggests