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Paulsen, Gary

The River

Gary Paulsen

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 scien

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Eastern Sun, Winter Moon

Gary Paulsen

The author chronicles his boyhood in the U.S. and the Philippines during World War II.

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Nightjohn

Gary Paulsen

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

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Brian's Return

Gary Paulsen

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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Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

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 h

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The Boy Who Owned the School

Gary Paulsen

Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change.

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Brian's Hunt

Gary Paulsen

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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Dogsong

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 himself.

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Nightjohn

Gary Paulsen

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

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The Beet Fields

Gary Paulsen

A boy runs away from home and his drunken parents and spends his sixteenth summer learning about life as a migrant laborer and carnival worker.

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