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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1985
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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: Ben and his twin classmates, Charlotte and Jacob, are missing a school field trip so Ben's father takes them, his new apprentice Brig, and the dogs on an adventure during which Ben manages to try out for a hockey academy against his parents' wishes and the twins turn the road trip into a learning experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2015Paulsen, Gary.
Summary: An account of the life of Bass Reeves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUPaulsen, Gary.
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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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Summary: 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 and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2013
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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Summary: Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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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: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2011
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Summary: Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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Summary: Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1989
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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Summary: When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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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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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: 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: Ember 2012
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Summary: When supremely organized seventh-grader, Molly McGinty, loses the notebook she relies on to keep her life in order she spends the day in chaos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2004
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulson 2004Paulsen, Gary.
Summary: Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way West to the Oregon Trail where they hope to find the Tucket family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Yearling 2002
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Summary: After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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Summary: Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010