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.
2) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
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.
4) The rifle
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
105 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
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...
8) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
9) Tracker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Alone on his first deer hunt in the Minnesota woods, a thirteen-year-old boy resolves not to kill a doe, but to touch her, in hope that he will thereby save his grandfather from an impending death by cancer