Part one of term paper
Canyons by Gary Paulsen is a book written about a young boy who finds a skull on a camping trip and it seems to give him mental messages about where he should go and what he should do. It all starts when Brannon goes on a camping trip with his mom and her boyfriend. Brannon is having a bad time and is not very social. When he is trying to ...

Part two of term paper
... to the person that the skull belonged to. Through days and weeks of research, they go through several files and stacks of newspapers. Brannon stayed up several nights reading articles about the timeperiod given to them by the pathologist who examined the skull earlier. Eventually, Brannon finds the exact article written about the young Apache warrior. The skull continues to talk to Brannon, about wanting it's soul to be where it can rest. Brannon runs away with the skull, about the time his mo ...