Not really sure what to rate this ... 3.5. While writing this review and remembering some of the story, I think I bumped it up a little. My boys (reluctant readers) had read this author's Hatchet series. I noticed he has SO many other titles too. This one popped up for me as a physical book, given  to me by my brother (purchased at a school library sale) for my Little Free Library. I like to read a book if I can before offering it up, and wondered if the author's appeal would carry over beyond Hatchet.

On the one hand, this was a sweet story about a boy coming from a broken home, to stay the summer with extended family. Learning about love and life. Lots of growth.

It's also a very "young boy" with some crude talk (testicles, balls, dirty pictures, blowing up a frog, smoking/drinking) and bad grammar (lots of "ain't" and "don't nobody seen that" type of thing ...) ironically whereas the title says "Harris and Me" I noted IN the book, our MC said/thought "Harris and I" with correct grammar. He (at age 11) also uses/things words like "ubiquitous" and "purloined" and "wherein" (see the TOC headers) ... 

Just twelve chapters ... no TOC in the hardcopy, and just basic numerical chapters listed in the Kindle and audio versions. There WERE chapter headings, which sound like official "Friends" episode titles, and I would have loved to have them shown in the TOC. So, here they are now for my personal reference (it gives a feel of the book, the events, the voice ...)

1. In which I meet Harris and am exposed for the first time to the vagaries of inflation
2. Wherein I become a farmer and meet Vivian
3. Wherein Harris introduces me to work and I meet Ernie
4. In which war is declared and honor established
5. Where I meet Buzzer and learn the value and safety of teamwork
6. Wherein I learn some more physics, involving parabolic trajectories, and see the worth of literature
7. In which I am exposed to the city, and the lure of the silver screen and orange pop
8. In which we educate two horses, and I learn the one blamed is not always the one guilty
9. Where I learn of play and strength, and raw work
10. In which I discover love only to have my heart broken and in revenge fry Harris's business
11. In which Harris discovers speed ... and the value of clothing
12. In which all things change

I have to admit I laughed out loud typing up the header to chapter 10 ... there is an epilogue too. So much of the story is just basic childhood shenanigans. I did wonder at the "indians" and "dirty japs" play, how the present day political correct climate would view things.  I was a reminded a little of the childhood friendships in To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem&Scout and Dill come to stay the summer, or Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer.   There at the end, I think I teared up a little. 

It was having the physical book that bumped this up my TBR ... I'm a little ashamed to say I struggled a bit with the "don't judge a book by its cover" because, I HATE this cover. There are a few, this one is the two boys and the big, realistic looking (made me wonder if it had been made into a movie? I don't mind the audio cover, and like the farm scene of the hardback. I don't love the title either ... the grammar issue bugs me a bit (and as mentioned, our MC actually has a refined vocabulary for his age).

Writing this review ... as I wrote "the MC" ... I realized I didn't know the MCs name. I flipped through the book ... we are never told his name! The blurb says "A young city boys is sent to spend the summer on his aunt and uncle's farm" ... it doesn't list a name. His name is never said! I was super aware of this in The Handmaid's Tale and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, but I hadn't even realized it here until I came to write this review. 

1st person//Past tense
Listed as part of a series - but that seems to be a random pull together of titles, this is a stand-alone book.

On Audible, it's listed as a woman as the narrator ... um no, Steven Boyer does get credit (even if Audible gets it wrong on their site).