GARY PAULSEN
1) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
2) Northwind
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to “the heartbeat of the ocean . . . the pulse of the sea.” With hints of Nordic mythology...
3) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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 oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers." Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
6) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
7) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.