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The Transall saga

  • Paulsen, Gary
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.

Hatchet

  • Paulsen, Gary
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Canoe days

  • Paulsen, Gary
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
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The night the white deer died

  • Paulsen, Gary
A teenage girl and an old Indian are brought together by the same haunting dream.

Hatchet

  • Paulsen, Gary
2013
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to cope with his parents' divorce.
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This side of wild

mutts, mares, and laughing dinosaurs
  • Paulsen, Gary
2016
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure... His understanding and admiration of animals is well known, and in 'This Side of Wild', which has taken a lifetime to write, he proves the ways in which they have taught him to be a better person"--Provided by publisher.
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Submitted by khenkes on Thu, 08/08/2019 - 10:25

A collection of slapstick tales of growing up in a small town in Minnesota. AC 43169.

Brian's Return

Submitted by khenkes on Thu, 08/08/2019 - 10:25

As millions of readers of Hatchet, the River and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the north woods. the answer is to return, to "go back in" for only in the wilderness can Brain discover his true path in life, and where he belongs.

Liar, liar

  • Paulsen, Gary
2011
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.

Nightjohn

  • Paulsen, Gary
2016
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

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