This little face caught everyone's attention.

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6. Everyone should read "Rascal" by Sterling North

Subtitled "A Memoir of a Better Era", North's book is about being young and having a pet raccoon. 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 Sterling's 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 hometown, 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",[1] provide a glimpse of the past, as the original subtitle suggests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_(book)