Gary Paulsen
1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
13-year-old Brian Robeson learns to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with his hatchet and resourcefulness.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
83 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixty-five erasers go missing, Principal Wagner enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
137 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
6) Northwind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to “the heartbeat of the ocean . . . the pulse of the sea.” With hints of Nordic mythology...
7) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Old Days There Were Songs Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do...
8) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Brian's saga volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old boy returns to the wild, where he befriends a wounded dog and hunts a rogue bear.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
118 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
11) Alida's song
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
88 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
13) Fishbone's song
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Afraid to actually ask Tina Zabinski for a date, eighth-grader Kevin spends most of his time theorizing about love and romance and observing and analyzing male/female interaction.
15) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two boys, separated by time and different cultures, forge a mystical connection when fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole finds the skull of Coyote Runs, an Indian boy killed on his first raid, and becomes obsessed with returning it to a sacred place
16) The winter room
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
17) Grizzly
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
53 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Justin McCallister's happiness at his aunt and uncle's sheep ranch is interrupted by a destructive grizzly bear that injures the farm animals, so Justin decides to take matters into his own hands.
18) Woodsong
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Pr
Pub. Date
[c1990]
Physical Desc
132p illus
Language
English
Description
The author describes his love for the natural world, his involvement in dogsledding, and his experiences taking part in the Iditarod, the 1,180-mile dogsled race across Alaska
20) The rock jockeys
Author
Publisher
[Bantam Doubleday Dell Bks for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55p
Language
English
Description
Discovering a wrecked B-17 Bomber and the remains of its crew on Devil's Wall mountain, three young climbers, who have become trapped in the same area, learn from the navigator's diary that he used his dead crewman for food