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Gary Paulsen
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…
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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…
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Roped into wacky attempts to break world records, imitate scenes from books, and other inspired ideas, Riley and Reed follow their fearless leader Henry into the wilderness, the bull-riding ring…
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…
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…
What do you do when your dad is eco-MAD? A laugh-out-loud eco-adventure from award-winning author Gary Paulsen.
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…
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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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 teenage girl and an old Indian are brought together by the same haunting dream.
The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer andyment as carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.
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…
An acclaimed Newbery Honor-winning children’s writer offers a collection of intense stories for adults. Among the unusual plots: a drunken Vietnam vet helps deliver the second Christ in a cemetery…
Building on the huge success of Lawn Boy, Lawn Boy Returns picks up six weeks after the first book ends. A prize fighter sponsored by Lawn boy wins a big…
Francis Tucket, Lottie, and Billy have survived many hair-raising adventures, joined together by their goal to find the family Francis lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on…
A memoir from a literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origin of Paulsen's famed survival stories.
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…
In this searing picture of slavery ( Kirkus Reviews ),12-year-old slave Sarny risks terrible punishment as Nightjohn, an adult slave, teaches her how to read. An inspirational story, meticulously researched…
Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen’s Voyage of the Frog joins the Scholastic Gold line, with bonus content!
David was only trying to fulfill his uncle’s last wish when he set…
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to…
The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with only a hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian’s Winter begins where…
An adventure of Alaskan dog-racing and of the Arctic landscape
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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…
The companion to Liar, liar; Flat broke; Crush; and Vote –Cover.
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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…
Fifteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. Then Johanna moves in next door. Johanna’s dealing with breast cancer. When she hires Finn to…
Fourteen-year-old Kevin impetuously announces that he will run for student body president, mainly to impress his girlfriend Tina, but soon gets excited about making a positive difference in his 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.
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…
His uncle wanted him to stay home and work the farm but the boy knew there was a world out there he had to see. Yet being a runaway meant…
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…
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
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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…
Follows a twelve-year-old boy, his free-thinking father, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.
Twelve-year-old Daniel Martin is a slow learner who escapes his classmates’ cruel jokes by spending time in the outdoors. When a van crash plunges them into a river, Daniel could…
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…
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…
Published in 2022 by arrangement with Farrar, Staus and Giroux –Title page verso.
Samuel, 13, has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America, far away from any news of the war. But the war comes to them. British soldiers and…
Roman Sanchez, still suffering from the death of his father, must use all his skills and knowledge to save himself and the lives of three classmates when they are kidnapped…
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…
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…
