Gary Paulsen, Author . Dell/ Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (, $5.50 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-440-41379-0
. In a starred review of yet another sequel to Hatchet, PW
called the work "bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive." Ages 12-up. (May)
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (288p) ISBN 978-0-440-41248-9
PW
said, "Plotted much like a shoot-'em-up computer game, this story set in 2057 hurtles through hairbreadth rescues and encounters with loyal American fighters and bloodcurdlingly evil Confederation of Consolidated Republics soldiers. The...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.50 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-41875-7
"Paulsen is at the top of his form in this tribute to his sled dog Cookie," said PW
in a starred review. It is "easy to cross-shelve this book alongside adult titles, a love story every bit as much as an adventure story." Ages 10-up
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-40712-6
The author here spells out the incidents in his own life that appear in Hatchet
and its sequels. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-72949-9
Paulsen, who has written several volumes of memoirs, once again reaches back to his boyhood in northern Minnesota, this time to recount his and his pals' attempts to pull off stunts that live up to their billing as "outrageous" and "e
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $12.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-32499-1
In one of his minor efforts, the prolific Paulsen serves up a righteous, pro–free-speech theme accompanied by big helpings of over-the-top plot lines. Twelve-year-old Tony, in whose disingenuously naïve voice the story is told, lives...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Scholastic/Signature $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-52357-8
"This short, lyrical novel concerns a five-year-old boy who is sent to the north woods of Minnesota to live with his grandmother, a cook for a rough-and-tumble road-building crew," wrote PW. "Paulsen makes this hero one of the most...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $12.95 (105p) ISBN 978-0-385-32588-2
Prolific author Paulsen (Hatchet
; Nightjohn
) aims for laughs but misses in this slight story about an anal-retentive girl forced to work without her net. The "exceedingly organized" Molly keeps life tidy in a three-ring binder with...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Dell/Yearling $5.50 (111p) ISBN 978-0-440-22935-3
Paulsen once again reaches back to his northern Minnesota boyhood to recount his and his pals' attempt to pull off stunts that live up to their billing as "outrageous" and "extreme," even by today's standards. According to...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-385-74659-5
Paulsen's futuristic novel starts with a bang, as Dorso Clayman discovers a medical cadaver in his school locker ("It was an old cadaver. Runny"). Readers quickly learn that the discovery of a "hologram projector chip" has led to
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $13.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-385-74660-1
Paulsen's perceptive, funny look at the life of 12-year-old Duane is at once indisputably real and drolly exaggerated. The author gets the beleaguered boy's voice just right as Duane bares all in his journal, admitting, "Lately I've...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-385-90898-6
In a foreword to this compelling fictionalized biography (appropriately subtitled, "Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West"), Paulsen debunks the myths surrounding some of the Wild West's most...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $12.99 (88p) ISBN 978-0-385-74686-1
At the start of this witty, quick-moving tale from the Newbery author, a 12-year-old receives an unexpected birthday present from his grandmother: his late grandfather's riding lawn mower. Since his family's lawn is postage-stamp size with
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $12.99 (83p) ISBN 978-0-385-74685-4
Without even trying, Mudshark is a very cool 12-year-old (he acquired his nickname after wowing his peers with lightning-speed reflexes during a game of Death Ball (“a kind of soccer mixed with football and wrestling and rugby and mudfighting&#
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (133p) ISBN 978-0-385-73845-3
Paulsen (Mudshark
) writes another touching story about human kindness and humanity. Reclusive and insecure, Finn lives with his father, his dog and his friend Matthew, whose parents are divorcing. Being 14 isn't easy for Finn (“I feel...
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Gary Paulsen, Author . Random/Lamb $15.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-385-73884-2
Set during the American Revolution, Paulsen's (Hatchet
) slim novel candidly and credibly exposes the underbelly of that war. Sam is a skilled hunter with an instinctive knowledge of the western Pennsylvania forest—a “woods runner.&#
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-385-30388-0
Nearly two years after being marooned in the wilderness--the experience recounted in Hatchet --Brian agrees to go back, accompanied by Derek, a psychologist who wants to study the strategies and especially the mental toughness that brought Brian...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21023-8
A psychic link is forged between a 19th-century Apache boy and Brennan, a 15-year-old on a camping trip who undertakes a grueling journey. ``Terse language keeps the story moving at a brisk pace,'' PW commented. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.5 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-21092-4
Living with her mother in a New Mexico art colony, a teenaged girl feels iso lated and is haunted by a recurring dream. PW praised the ``eerily poetic'' writing in this allegorical novel, ``rooted in the chasm between actualities and pretensions.''...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-40923-6
PW praised the ``taut scenes of physical drama and suspense'' in the Newbery Honor author's tale of a boy who, on his own in a high-country meadow, cares for several thousand sheep one summer. Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-126227-4
The scene was unnerving to a novice: television cameras, loudspeakers, crowds and nearly 2000 excited dogs all jammed a street in downtown Anchorage. It was the start of the Iditarod dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome over 1180 miles of rugged...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-40753-9
In a boxed review, PW praised the ``terse, heart-stopping prose'' of this follow-up to Hatchet : ``The new adventure is as riveting as its predecessor . . . the psychological terrain of the sequel is fresh and distinct.'' Ages 10-14. (Feb.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Harvest Books $15 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-600145-8
Acclaimed children's book author Paulsen offers a gripping account of his experience running the 1180 mile Iditarod dogsled race. (Feb.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-41133-8
In a starred review, PW called this western adventure ``a real knock 'em, sock 'em ripsnorter'' with a ``thrill-a-minute plot.'' Ages 10-up. (Dec.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-385-32198-3
First there was Hatchet, Paulsen's classic tale of a boy's survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-41270-0
In a starred review of this follow-up to Mr. Tucket, PW said that Paulsen ""weaves in a wealth of information about pioneer travel, adding historical value to this heart-stopping good read."" Ages 10-up. (Nov.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-22750-2
For fans of Hatchet, Paulsen's popular survival story, come two follow-up adventures. In the first, Brian must rescue a coma victim when stranded on a rapid river in the wilderness. PW called The River ""as riveting as its predecessor... the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-41147-5
The third book in the series that began with Mr. Tucket finds Francis and his adopted family on the Oregon Trail and in the Mexican War. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (103p) ISBN 978-0-440-41463-6
Two junior high boys lose their ""uncool"" status when they kiss girls and foil some football team thugs in this comedy set in the 1950s. ""Joyfully unconventional thinking and quirky writing,"" said PW. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-32500-4
The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian's Winter, essentially offer more of the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21973-6
A 94-year-old former slave recalls the years after the Civil War. PW called this sequel to Nightjohn ""somewhat contrived"" but a ""page-turner."" Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $7.5 (248p) ISBN 978-0-440-21976-7
Mysteriously transported to a strange place and time, 13-year-old Mark learns to survive. ""Paulsen works his magic with another wilderness adventure yarn,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Wendy Lamb Books $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-74647-2
In Gary Paulsen's latest, Brian's Hunt, Brian has traveled back to his beloved Canadian wilderness. Although Brian's Return (2001) was to be the last in the series, here the acclaimed hero hunts for a bear that has attacked his friends. With an ...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Atheneum Books $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-02-770130-2
When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Scholastic $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-531-05709-4
Paulsen's latest novel is as ugly as a bad dream. Unfortunately, it's not a dream, but a potent expression of the brutal realities of a bridge that joins the golden highways of ""el norte'' (the U.S.) and the mud streets of neighboring Mexico. Young
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Gary Paulsen, Author Scholastic $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-531-05865-7
Most of the action of this farcical novel takes place at the high school where Jacob Freisten's primary goal is to remain unnoticed. All too often this classic loser finds himself cornered by some bully. When he is not being stuffed inside a locker...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-55611-203-4
In the riveting second volume of Paulsen's crime trilogy (after Night Rituals ), Denver freelance reporter Tally Janrus, covering the murder and mutilation of a young boy, learns from his police detective friend that the boy had been sexually abused
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-385-30153-4
Brennan is a young loner of the type that will be instantly familiar to Paulsen fans. Coyote Runs is a 19th-century Apache boy who was murdered during the raid that was to mark his entry into manhood. The two boys' stories come together when Brennan
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-40364-7
Three-time Newbery Honor author Paulsen provides another action-filled survival story, as a storm strands 14-year-old David when he attempts to fulfill his late uncle's last wish by piloting his sailboat. Ages 10-14. (Nov.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.5 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-40454-5
``Newbery Award-winner Paulsen never disappoints, and proves his talent again in this remarkably good tale,'' said PW , concerning this vivid yarn of a family dramatically affected by a quirky uncle's storytelling. Ages 9-12. (May)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press $15 (151p) ISBN 978-0-385-30518-1
Rocky, an adopted, partly lame teenage girl, tells how a memorial to her small Kansas town's war dead came to be built and how her vision and those of the other residents were altered by the monument's artist. When Rocky first encounters Mick Strum,
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40598-6
These lively stories kick off the Culpepper Adventures series, which Paulsen conceived in the hopes of converting reluctant readers-or those hooked on TV-to reading. Kids, especially middle-grade boys, will willingly turn off the set to follow the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-15-127260-0
Paulsen's notable adult trade debut, Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass , and 16 award-winning YA novels precede this gripping memoir of a tumultuous childhood. ``My mother and I spent the war years in Chicago,'' he begins, explaining that after his birth...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Walker & Company $17.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1277-6
Since the death of his wife, Al Murphy has wandered the West. As this latest addition to the series bearing his name ( Murphy's Gold , etc.) opens, the former sheriff stumbles on some gunmen just after they have committed a murder. Becoming a target
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-31169-4
Here's a real knock 'em, sock 'em, ripsnorter guaranteed to keep any boy (and any girl who doesn't mind a dearth of female characters) enthralled from first page through last. In 1848, a 14-year-old boy is captured from an Oregon-bound wagon train...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-292878-0
Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders is a 1990s Huck Finn, with parents as neglectful as ``Pap.'' Like Huck he escapes, not on a raft but by constructing a kit car. He takes his red Blakely Bearcat out to the highway and points it west, intending to leave
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Gary Paulsen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $15 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-292879-7
Billed as ``a parable in one sitting,'' Paulsen's newest is not so much a full-fledged novel or novella as a story dominated by a single theme. Although the title may lead the Newbery Honor author's many admirers to expect an adventure like Hatchet,
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Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-40994-6
``A hearty helping of old-fashioned, rip-roaring entertainment,'' said PW about this post-WWII story of an 11-year-old boy sent to spend the summer on his relatives' farm. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-32116-7
The hero of this stallion-swift adventure tale, the followup to Mr. Tucket, could be the adolescent prefiguration of the archetypal western good guy-Gary Cooper or Clint Eastwood with a voice that's just begun to crack. Francis Tucket is 14 or 15-he'
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21918-7
In a starred review, PW praised the Newbery Honor author for ``his ability to create flesh-and-blood characters'' in this story about a 14-year-old who sets out on a road trip and meets up with a Vietnam vet. Ages 12-up. Another Paulsen title,...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-80412-0
The value of life is the theme of these two rugged novels, the first a coming-of-age tale revolving around a deer hunt, the second a collection of interspliced stories contrasting a celebration of the human spirit with glimpses of the dehumanizing...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.5 (96p) ISBN 978-0-440-21919-4
PW praised the pacing and settings of this tale of father and son scammers posing as preachers, but found that ""the symbolism and message are trumpeted too loudly, drowning out attempts to create lifelike complexity in either the characters or...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-385-32194-5
Two things make this book stand out from the crowd of school-based comedies. First, there's Paulsen's joyfully unconventional thinking and quirky writing. Second, this book is told in an unusual but effective way, narrated by an unnamed 14-year-old...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-193093-7
Talk about succumbing to the mystique of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Paulsen's fourth collection of memoirs finds him 57 and diagnosed with heart disease. So before it's too late and--as the book's title suggests--desperate to test his masculinity,
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-385-32586-8
Paulsen revisits the terrain of various autobiographical writings (Father Water, Mother Woods; Eastern Sun, Winter Moon; and sections of My Life in Dog Years) for this affecting story of a pivotal summer. The 14-year-old protagonist, who is named...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-32196-9
Paulsen (Brian's Winter) works his magic with another wilderness adventure yarn. But the wilderness this time isn't in this world--or is it? That's what 13-year-old Mark tries to discover. On his first solo backpacking trip, crossing an old missile...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-440-22783-0
Narrated by the son of a Minnesota farm family sometime in the first half of the century, this ""remarkably good"" story ""will inevitably recall Laura Ingalls Wilder--but by way of Hemingway and Jim Harrison,"" said PW. Ages 10-up. (Nov.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-32647-6
No stranger to memoir, Paulsen (My Life in Dog Years; Father Water, Mother Woods) returns to a series of episodes he previously fictionalized in the 1977 Tiltawhirl John and now presents the material ""as real as I can write it, and as real as I can
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Gary Paulsen, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $8.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-32254-6
Plotted much like a shoot-'em-up computer game, this often violent adventure shows the Newbery Honor author at his least literary. It is 2057, and the Confederation of Consolidated Republics (CCR) has decimated the United States (America's downfall,
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Gary Paulsen, Author Wendy Lamb Books $15.95 (83p) ISBN 978-0-385-72950-5
A follow-up to Alida's Song, The Quilt by Gary Paulsen relates the boy's experiences at age six, spending time at his grandmother's Minnesota farm in the summer of 1944. Here, they, along with the other women whose husbands are off fighting, help
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Gary Paulsen, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-032239-2
Two sterling novels by the Newbery Honor-winning storyteller. Ages 10-14. (October)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Scholastic $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-531-05749-0
The island is in the middle of a small lake in northern Wisconsin. It is uninhabited until the summer Wilstet, who is 15, arrives. Wil is at first drawn by the simplicity of the place, but as his concentration sharpens the island unfolds its matrix...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-032724-3
This Newbery Honor book is a dramatic, heart-stopping story of a boy who, following a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, must learn to survive with only a hatchet and his own wits. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author Scholastic $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-531-05805-3
Paulsen's admirers will be satisfied with his latest survival story, this time set in the open sea. The author ranges through his accustomed territory, focusing on both the actual aspects of the voyage and the wisdom brought on by one boy's...
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Gary Paulsen, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (132p) ISBN 978-0-14-034905-4
According to PW , this ``autobiographical celebration of Paulsen's longtime love of dogsledding and sled dogs . . . blends deep introspection with fast-paced action and succeeds admirably on both levels.'' Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Gary Paulsen, Random/Lamb, $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-74001-2
"I'm the best liar you'll ever meet," announces the glib narrator of this funny and touching novel. Fourteen-year-old Kevin inventively bends the truth to his advantage—or so he thinks. He convinces his partner on a school project that he suffers...
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Gary Paulsen, illus. by Tim Jessell. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5150-5
Paulsen ventures into nonfiction in this anecdotal account of animals—pets and others—that have influenced him. The stories' diverse settings reflect Paulsen's peripatetic and adventurous life, beginning in Wyoming, where he acquired his first...
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Gary Paulsen. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5223-6
A master of action-propelled outdoor stories, Paulsen moves his focus inside, literally and figuratively, as he explores the interactions among six eighth-grade boys while they take shelter in a school bathroom during a severe weather alert. The...
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Gary Paulsen. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5226-7
Paulsen (This Side of Wild) again mines themes of resourcefulness and respect for nature in this introspective story of a boy raised in the woods by an elderly hermit. The unnamed young narrator's life is built on uncertainty: he doesn't know when...
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Gary Paulsen, read by MacLeod Andrews. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 2.25 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-0814-4
Fourteen-year-old Harold Schernoff has a scientific theory for just about everything—from skiing and playing sports to illegally purchasing a car. With close friend Gary, Harold navigates the social minefield that is high school and tests his...
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Gary Paulsen, read by Nick Podehl. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 1.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-0823-6
Jacob Freisten just wants to live life inconspicuously. But when his English teacher, Mrs. Hilsak, tells Jacob he's on the verge of flunking the class, she gives him an alternative: he can save his grade with extra credit by working on the fog...
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Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen. Random/Lamb, $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-74191-0
A devoted raconteur of dog stories, Gary Paulsen (Notes from the Dog) along with his sculptor son, Jim, pull from a family tradition of adopting shelter dogs for their absorbing first collaboration. When Ben’s impulsive father recruits him to help...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Wendell Minor, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (168p) ISBN 978-0-15-292877-3
Paulsen choreographs an antic jig of down-on-the-farm frolics in this warm comedy set a few years after WW II. The 11-year-old narrator (who has spent a good portion of his life being shipped off to various relatives) has never seen anything like...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Mickey Edwards, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-034204-8
A disturbed 14-year-old gains new perspectives while staying with his uncle in a Minnesota farm community in the 1940s, in this novel by the Newbery Honor author. Ages 10-14. (Oct.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, G. Paulsen, Author Scholastic $16.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-531-05839-8
Following the events of one year, from plowing to harvest to butchering, this novel offers a compelling description of farming in a bygone time. The narrator, Elgon, is the younger son of a Scandinavian family in northern Minnesota. He begins in...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, G. Paulsen, Author Scholastic $15.95 (115p) ISBN 978-0-531-05927-2
This short, lyrical novel concerns a five-year-old boy who is sent to the north woods of Minnesota to live with his grandmother, a cook for a rough-and-tumble road-building crew, because his father is off fighting in World War II and his mother has...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, R. Hayes, Editor Puffin Books $6.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-034312-0
First published in 1977, this gritty novel by the author of Hatchet features a 15-year-old runaway who hooks up with a carnie. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Bertrand Piccard, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $10.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-15-275323-8
Poetically wrought, this novel reveals the parallels in the seemingly disparate circumstances of Rosa, an illegal immigrant-turned-prostitute, and Traci, a popular junior-high student preparing for cheerleader tryouts. Appropriately enough, the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Paulsen, Author Mariner Books $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-600203-5
Author Paulsen recounts the horrors of his childhood during WWII in which he and his mother travel to the Philippines to join his father, an army officer. (June)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator , illus. by Ruth Wright Paulsen. Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41441-4
The author of Hatchet
turns from adventure and high action to contemplative moments with this prose poem that describes a trip around a lake. Ages 4-8. (June)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41130-7
The Newbery Honor author, a two-time participant in the Iditarod, describes the thrill of a winter's night run with a team of sled dogs. Ages 4-8. (Nov.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-385-32570-7
Here's a treat to make Paulsen fans sit up and beg for more: scenes of Paulsen's life viewed in terms of the dogs who graced them. Aficionados who have read Paulsen's other memoirs (Father Water, Mother Woods; Eastern Sun, Northern Moon) already...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201698-2
This simple prose poem describes, in broad strokes, how corn is harvested and made into tortillas while rough, warm-toned paintings set the scenes. All ages. (Apr.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Yearling Books $6.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-440-41471-1
""Here's a treat to make Paulsen fans sit up and beg for more,"" said PW in a starred review; ""Paulsen's paean resonates with a robust appreciation of the species."" All ages. (July) r
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-02-770221-7
Paulsen, who has received Newbery Honors for three of his novels, is the best author of man-against-nature adventures writing today. Woodsong is an autobiographical celebration of his longtime love of dogsledding and sled dogs, a love that suffused...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-385-30621-8
When John is 14, a shortage of hired hands compels him to spend the summer caring for several thousand sheep in a high-country meadow. Several days' ride from the ranch, John has only himself to rely on when disasters strike, and he learns that he...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-385-32053-5
Gary Paulsen, in a foreword to this collection of autobiographical essays, identifies his youthful experiences in the woods and rivers of northern Minnesota as the source for his Newbery Honor novel Hatchet (about which he receives 30,000-40,000...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200980-9
From truck driver to cafeteria cook, from nurse to deep-sea diver--""All the things there are to be"" gather together in this gentle rhyming hymn to the dignity of work. Here, work is the common tie that binds, rather than the distinction that sets...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32524-0
The prolific author of such titles as Hatchet and Soldier's Heart turns from adventure and high action to contemplative moments in this not particularly childlike mood piece. Describing a canoe trip around a lake, his prose poem homes in on quiet...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator, Ruth Wright Paulsen, With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-15-118101-8
Gary Paulsen, author of adventure novels for young people, shows us a world of unremitting hard work and self-sufficiency in his powerfully elegiac account of the seasonal activities of a multigenerational farming family of Scandinavian descent on...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator, Gloria De Aragon Andujar, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201714-9
This simple prose poem describes, in broad strokes, how corn is harvested and made into tortillas while rough, warm-toned paintings set the scenes. All ages. (Apr.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-21984-2
""Descriptions of light and water, of fish and wildlife, kindle in the reader a measure of the author's own complex respect for nature,"" said PW in a starred review. All ages. (Apr.)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-30550-1
The distinguished author of Dogsong and Hatchet somewhat strains for effect in this prose poem describing a night run with a team of dogs. Each stanza begins with a kind of chapter heading (``The dance,'' ``Into the night,'' etc.) that signals the...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Zumbo, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-32498-4
Addressing the most fundamental themes of life and death, the versatile Paulsen produces a searing antiwar story. He bases his protagonist, Charley Goddard, on an actual Civil War soldier, a 15-year-old from Minnesota who lied about his age and...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Deborah Halverson, Editor, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202371-3
PW called this a ""gentle rhyming hymn to the dignity of work."" Ages 3-7. (May)
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Brian Burks, With Walker & Company $17.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8027-4149-3
In this fifth book of the western-mystery adventures of New Mexico Sheriff Al Murphy, the lean and leathery lawman finds himself on the trail of renegade Apache, murder and conspiracy. The authors (Murphy's Stand) serve up a fast-paced tale of...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Honeywood, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (112p) ISBN 978-0-15-292880-3
A gifted storyteller, Paulsen could have plucked this plot straight from any newspaper-an accidental shooting with a loaded gun. This tragedy doesn't occur until the final pages, however; with consummate skill, Paulsen slowly sets the stage by...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Dunham, Author, Ruth Wright Paulsen, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (81p) ISBN 978-0-15-292881-0
Paulsen is at the top of his form in this tribute to his sled dog Cookie, previously introduced in the adult title Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. With the same rugged reverence for wilderness that underscores his classic...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, George Wendt, Read by Listening Library $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52611-0
From the author interview at the beginning of this recording, listeners will be caught up in Paulsen's storytelling. His wrenching look at the brutal Civil War (based on one boy's real-life experiences) comes to life via Wendt's (Cheers) robust bass
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-385-30838-0
Among the most powerful of Paulsen's works ( Hatchet ; The Winter Room ; Dogsong ), this impeccably researched novel sheds light on cruel truths in American history as it traces the experiences of a 12-year-old slave girl in the 1850s. Narrator...
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Gary Paulsen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-32195-2
In this somewhat contrived sequel to Nightjohn, set in post-Civil War New Orleans, 94-year-old Sarny reflects on her first few years as an emancipated slave. On the day the plantation master is killed by a Union soldier, Sarny heads to New Orleans...
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Paulsen, Author, Gary Paulsen, Author Yearling Books $7.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-440-41967-9
Tucket's Travels by Gary Paulsen collects all five of Francis Tucket's previously published adventures into one meaty paperback volume: Mr. Tucket; Call Me Francis Tucket; Tucket's Ride; Tucket's Gold; and Tucket's Home. In a starred review of ...
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Gary Paulsen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-31415-6
In this memoir told in five sections, Newbery Medalist Paulsen (Hatchet), best known for his riveting survival stories, shares the turbulent early life experiences that led to his writing career. After his mother finds munitions plant work in 1944...
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Gary Paulsen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-31417-0
In a comically wry narration, Carl Hemesvedt explains that he desperately wants to be “lookatable” to impress classmate Peggy. But this poses a challenge for the cued-white 12-going-on-13-year-old, whose resourceful but mishap-prone single father...
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Gary Paulsen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-31420-0
Inspired by the late Paulsen’s lifelong love of the sea and his own journey up the Pacific coast, this captivating saga of survival and self-discovery, his final novel, centers a steadfast and levelheaded child in an apparently Nordic archipelago...
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