Paulsen, Gary

Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. Whenhe receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled. Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees.

A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.

A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own song of himself.

This book follows a twelve-year-old boy, his free-thinking father, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.

"Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own"--OCLC.