Gary Paulsen
1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Hatchet" concludes with Brian Robeson's rescue from the wilderness. "But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if Brian had been left to confront his deadliest enemy -- winter?" -- Publisher's text.
4) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2003
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...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While backpacking solo in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
7) Northwind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte/Yearling
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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. Today Molly learned her wacky grandma was coming to spend the day at school with her; Lost her notebook with everything that matters in it, including her homework; got a black eye, tore her skirt. And it's only 9 a.m. Could things get any worse? You bet!
15) Road trip
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy.
16) Snow dogs
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs; Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs for himself.