Gary Paulsen

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

Filled with adventure and humor, Mark Twain's classic novel vividly recreates the world he knew and loved from his years as a Mississippi riverboat captain. Young Huckleberry Finn is one of Twain's greatest creations and one of the most enduring characters in all American literature. He has no mother, and his father is usually drunk, often violent, and almost always vagrant. Huck must live by his wiles, his wits and at times, by petty thievery. But...

The author's account of his most ambitious quest: to know a world beyond his knowing, to train for and run the Iditarod.

After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.

Thirteen-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.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

When a little boy spends Christmas with his dying cousin, they discover that Santa really does exist.

In his final adventure, Francis Tucket heads home at last.

Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-confidence during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.

   Kevin Spencer, the hero of Liar, Liar, Flat Broke, and Crush, has a knack for tackling big ideas and goofing up, so what's next? Politics, of course! He's running for office, and his campaign is truly unique.