Other Books by Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
Hatchet is the story of a boy named Brian. On a trip to the Canadian oilfields to spend the summer with his dad, the pilot of the Cessna he is traveling in suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian must land the plane in the forest. Brian learns to exist in in this wilderness. He faces many dangers including hunger, animal attacks, and even a tornado. This book gives the reader a better understanding of what it is like to survive in an untamed land.
Hatchet: The Return
This book is the sequel to "Hatchet" and a story of challenge and survival. Brian is asked to return to the wilderness though this time accompanied by an adult and two way radio. Unforeseen catastrophe forces him to face a new terror and series of desperate adventures.
Dog Song
In Dogsong, a young 14-year-old Eskimo boy decides to go on a journey to the North to discover how to hunt in the old ways with his dogs so he could find out how the song goes in the past. Russel is seeking to answers from the past, there was nobody that can help him on the way to the North he must do it alone. He gets all different kinds of dream. How would he survive? This journey might change his life forever.
Brian's Winter
Brian Robeson, 13, was stranded in the north Canadian woods after his plane gone down on his way to see his dad, after the divorce. He was stranded there in the woods for the entire summer. He survived the summer by eating and drinking from the survival kit; which he got out of the plane just before it was sinking. No one knew Brian was still alive, no one came to rescue him. The time went by, he now have to survive his battle with the enemy, old man winter.
The River
A sequel to the book, hatchet. In Hatchet, Brian survives 54 days in the wilderness with only a Hatchet. In this book a psychology teacher named Derek comes to Brian's house asking him to go back and do it all over again. Derek wants to accompany Brian and take notes about the journey. The story is about their adventure together. Derek is struck by lightening. Brian must figure out how to get Derek, who is in a coma, down the river to safety.
Lawn Boy
A boy (not named) gets an old, used, riding lawnmower for his birthday from his eccentric grandmother. His next-door neighbor asks him to mow his lawn. He needs money to buy an inner tube for his bike, so he agrees. Soon he gets more customers. Soon he has more than he can handle. One of his customers, an aging hippie day trader named Arnold, gives the boy advice on running his business, and invests his money for him. Soon the boy has more than a dozen employees, a wad of money, an interest in a prize fighter, and a problem with a protection racket. And all he wanted was an inner tube.
The Winter Room
This is a brief, intense novel with incredible descriptive scenes. As a young boy and his older brother Wayne grow up on a farm in northern Minnesota, we are witness to vivid scenes of farm life. In the bleak winters Uncle David tells stories in the winter room (a room only used in winter) of an almost mythological logging past. The boys doubt the truth of his stories and say so, thus hurting David so much he stops telling stories. It is only when the boys sneak into the barn to watch Uncle David and witness his incredible control of the axes that they begin to believe his stories are true and convince their uncle to resume the storytelling.
The Crossing
The Crossing was about an orphan named Manuel Bustos. Manny was his nickname. He was a poor Mexican boy. Manny lived on the streets and slept in a cardboard box. He had no time for heroes. He needed to scrap, fight boys bigger than him for money. The two most important things to Manny were to survive and to find a way to get across the border.