Paulsen, Gary.
Summary: The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers 1999
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Summary: In Hatchet, Brian, the sole survivor of a plane crash, learns to rely on his intelligence, his instincts, and his hatchet to cling to life. And, as thousands of listeners know, Brian's perseverance pays off when he's rescued at the end of the summer. But what would have happened if Brian hadn't been rescued then? What if Brian had been left to confront the most dangerous thing he had faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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Summary: Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2003
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Summary: Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter , and Brian's Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2003
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Summary: Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1993
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Summary: Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1988
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Summary: 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 way to end his lies forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2011
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1993
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Summary: The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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Summary: A teenage girl and an old Indian are brought together by the same haunting dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1990
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Summary: Although dismayed and embarrassed when his father takes him on the road to get rich preaching the word of God, fourteen-year-old Steven finds himself caught up in the money and the things it can buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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Summary: In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life--from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds. With Ruth Wright Paulsen's expressive paintings, The Tortilla Factory brings forth the poetry and beauty of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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Summary: Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the north woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to living in civilization. Brian is camping alone on a lake in the woods when he finds a dog that is wounded and whimpering. Who or what injured the dog? As Brian cares for her, he worries about his Cree friends, who live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1994
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Summary: When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, 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. 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 landscape.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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Summary: 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 himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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Summary: 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 himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1985
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Summary: Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake. Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2006