Gary Paulsen
3) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two years after he survived a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild where he feels he belongs. In a temporary camp on the way to visit his friends, Brian Robeson finds a dog, wounded and whimpering. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his friends. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he...
4) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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 help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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."-- Provided by publisher.
7) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
8) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) Mr. Tucket
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
15) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel
• The first skateboarding
• Breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . . . hitting gravel
• Jumping three barrels like motorcycle daredevil...
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel
• The first skateboarding
• Breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . . . hitting gravel
• Jumping three barrels like motorcycle daredevil...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Survival in the wilderness—Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too—not every big one gets away.
This book takes readers through the seasons,...
This book takes readers through the seasons,...
19) The rifle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
20) Tucket's ride
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.