Gary Paulsen
1) The monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
2) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
4) The car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
5) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod-the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness-in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations-and the relentless push to go on. Winterdance is the enthralling account of a stunning wilderness...
8) The foxman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
10) Tiltawhirl John
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with familiar faces, from the tough cop who saved him from juvenile delinquency to the prostitute whose career advice stopped him from quitting the army. And the work he does while...
Author
Publisher
Laurel Leaf Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services.