Gary Paulsen is one of the most honored writers of contemporary literature for young readers. He has written more than one hundred book for adults and young readers, and is the author of three Newbery Honor titles: Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room. He divides his time among Alaska, New Mexico, Minnesota, and the Pacific.
For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into...
A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and...
In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then,...
In the Old Days There Were Songs Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel...
The great American writer Ernest Hemingway, had this to say about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "All modern, literature, stems from this one book." In...
LOST Brian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness....
...Davie, "The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale Retold"; Garrison Keillor, "Leaving Home"; Thomas McGrath, "Selected Poems, 1938-1988"; and Gary Paulsen, "Hatchet." Keillor, host of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" and owner of St. Paul's Common Good...
...week: "Diary of a Spider" by Doreen Cronin; "Never Spit on Your Shoes" by Denys Cazet; "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Books to Buy The following books are available at your favorite bookstores. "Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp" written and...
...James Lincoln Collier follows a young Southern civilian captured by a black Union soldier. "Soldier's Heart" by Gary Paulsen tells the story of a 15-year-old enlistee from Minnesota. "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara is not a young adult novel per...
...The Girls Soul and Hooked on Hockey. New books for teens include Brian’s Hunt (Bk.4) by Gary Paulsen; The Last Song by Eva Wiseman; and Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent. For junior readers, check out Sweet Charity (Bk. 3) and Special Delivery (Bk....
...Traveling Condoms, with entertaining scenarios of why condoms went unused, while Leila Sales suggested a female version of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet (Antheneum, 1987), a story about lady problems while in the wilderness. Later on Friday, getting...
...The DMS was lucky enough to interview� Gary Paulsen,� author of the middle grade novel� Hatchet.� Lizzy reviewed this� exciting� story, and it was great to share our thoughts about it and hear yours! We are...
...of such things are stories made. Writers use objects to give their stories weight, attachment and verisimilitude, like Gary Paulsen's The Hatchet; Jean Shepherd's Red Ryder BB Gun inspired A Christmas Story; and how about Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese...
...Film Festival, is a masterful combination of both stews that rings a storybook note owing as much to Gary Paulsen as to Mark Twain, and with more on its mind than perhaps anything the director has offered so far. The project's early film school seeds...
...tender, joyful book is certain to warm the hearts of both young and old alike. "Road Trip" by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen, Wendy Lamb Books, 2013, 114 pages, $12.99 hardcover Read aloud: age 9 and older Read yourself: age 10 and older ...
...casket bearers were the Pipestone American Legion Post #6, Sons of the American Legion 40/8. Casket bearers were Gary Paulsen, Bob Furne, Rick Kautz, Tom Benz, Chuck Edgecomb and Marlin Taubert. Interment was held in Old Woodlawn Cemetery, Pipestone...
...June 29 Jacob Schofield, Meridian Jane and Randy Baker, Nampa Michelle McDorman, Meridian Jason and Jenny Bunn, Kuna Gary Paulsen, Garden City Thomas and Jennifer Lawrence, Kuna Michael and Jody Zahm, Eagle Larry and Brenda Jervik, Boise ...
...In 2011 Wichita native Clare Vanderpool joined the ranks of E.B. White, Madeline L’Engle and Gary Paulsen, the authors of “Charlotte’s Web,” “A Wrinkle in Time” and “Hatchet,” in winning the prestigious Newbery Medal with her debut novel,...
...Gary Paulsen is one of those beloved children's authors who, once you discover him, you wonder how you ever lived without him. He becomes your library go-to guy and the...
...of their meeting, both realize how very colorless their lives had been before they met. "Road Trip" by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen, Wendy Lamb Books, 2013, 114 pages, $12.99 hardcover Read aloud: age 9 and older Read yourself: age 10 and older ...