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Gary Paulsen
In these three novellas, Paulsen explores how children can survive the most difficult circumstances through art and the love of dogs.
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In each chapter of this fascinating book, Paulsen tells of a special pet: Snowball, the puppy he owned as a boy in the Philippines; Ike, his mysterious hunting companion; Dirk…
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Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body. Thirty seconds later it disappears. It’s not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and…
A sixteen-year-old boy is alone in the world for the first time. He’s new at everything, working in the beet fields and learning to survive on his own. Once he…
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A riveting, hopeful survival story. –Publishers Weekly, starred review
A mesmerizing memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen’s famed survival…
Published in 2022 by arrangement with Farrar, Staus and Giroux –Title page verso.
Paulsens Newbery Honor Book tells the story of 13-year-old Brian Robeson, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. This 20th anniversary commemorative edition features a fresh…
What do you do when your dad is eco-MAD? A laugh-out-loud eco-adventure from award-winning author Gary Paulsen.
Readers will be drawn to the term ‘extreme sports’ but the story is more accurately one generation’s version of homemade fun in the days following the Korean War when ‘radio…
In 1944, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother near the Canadian border. With the men gone to war, the women are left to run the farms. When his…
Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet and other adventure novels, tells about his lifelong love of sailing, boats he has owned, and the storms, sharks, and peaceful lagoons he has experienced…
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire’s victims.
An exquisite prose poem and stunning watercolors bring the beauty of a nighttime dogsled run to life. This picture book is a companion to two of Gary Paulsen’s most beloved…
Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy, are heading west in search of Francis’s parents on the Oregon Trail. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to…
The companion to Mr. Tucket, this book explores the Western frontier of 1840s America through Francis’s exciting and unforgettable journey. A cool-headed survivor in the mold of Hatchet’s protagonist ……
Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.
A 14-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.
It is 1848 and 14-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail. When he lags behind to practice shooting his new rifle, he is captured by Pawnees. It…
At 14, Terry Anders has been abandoned by his parents, with no choice but to make his own way. After assembling pieces of a kit car from his father’s garage…
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…
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…
A haunted, battle-scarred man who tends the ice rinks teaches Marsh and his friend Willy something about the horrors of war–and the healing power of love. ALA Best Book for…
The first five books in Paulsen’s saga of 14-year-old Francis Tucket, who is kidnapped by Pawnees while heading west on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail, are collected in…
When a 12-year-old boy revs up his grandparents’ old riding lawnmower, he quickly learns about the beauty of capitalism, in this latest novel by the acclaimed author of The Legend…
Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn, is now a young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free…
Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor Book The Winter Room joins the Scholastic Gold line, with bonus content!
Two brothers, one family, and an unexpected secret revealed on the cold night of…
An adventure of Alaskan dog-racing and of the Arctic landscape
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning…
Master storyteller Paulsen ( Hatchet ) offers a nostalgic and rollicking tale with characters as endearing as Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
In the tradition of Jack London, Gary Paulsen presents an unforgettable account of his participation in the 1,100-mile-long dogsled race called the Iditarod . For 17 days, Paulsen and his…
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian’s Winter begins…
Originally published: New York: Random House Children’s Books, in 2003.
Brian Robeson ( Hatchet ) survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that’s he’s back in civilization, he can’t find a way to make…
Two years earlier, Brian Robeson was stranded alone in the wilderness for 54 days with nothing but a small hatchet. Yet he survived. Now the government wants him to go…
A mesmerizing memoir from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen--whose books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide--giving readers a new perspective on the origins of his blockbuster contemporary classic…
The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer andyment as carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, 15-year-old Charlie leaves his farm and enlists in the First Minnesota Volunteers. After experiencing the horrors of war, Charlie comes back…
A memoir from a literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origin of Paulsen's famed survival stories.
Four teenagers–a Native American girl, an illegal Mexican immigrant, a sheepherder’s daughter and a gifted rock musician–share the hopes and promise of a future imperiled by the threat of nuclear…
In a memoir as compelling as his novels, Newbery Honor author Paulsen tells the story of his intimate relationship with Minnesota’s north woods and the dog team he trained for…