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Mark's solo camping trip to the desert begins as any other camping trip, until a mysterious beam of light appears. The trip turns into a terrifying and thrilling adventure when the light beam transports Mark into another time, and what appears to be another planet! Although he is searching for his way back to earth, in the meantime he is forced to make a life in this unknown world. He meets primitive tribes and shares the joy of human bonds, but this end of isolation in the new world also brings war and a struggle for power.
* "[A] world of rare charm, a captivating, well-realized realm, where fantastical elements force the protagonist to discover and employ the greatest strengths of his humanity."
--Booklist, starred
Ages 12 up
Delacorte Press, Hardcover, $15.95/$21.95(Can), ISBN: 0-385-32196-1
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Slowly, David opened his eyes and looked around the horizon, wincing again with the new movement. There was nothing sticking above the water as far as he could see. He was alone. Fourteen-year-old David Alspeth intended only to fulfill his uncle's last wish when he set sail in the Frog, but when a savage storm slams into the tiny sailboat, David is stranded. No wind. No radio. Little water. Seven cans of food. And the storm is just the first challenge David must face...
Ages 10-14
Yearling, Paperback, $3.99/$4.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40364-2
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Manny Bustos is an orphan, scrabbling for survival on the streets of Juáurez, Mexico. He sleeps in a cardboard box and fights with boys bigger and older than him for the coins American tourists through off the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and his town.
Across the border, Sergeant Robert S. Locke, Vietnam vet and Army prefect, searches for a way to drown the cries for help of his dead friends, and finds it in Cutty Sark whiskey. On the night Manny dares the crossing, through the muddy shallows of the Rio Grande, past searchlights and border patrol, in the hopes of a better life, the two meet in an explosive encounter that fills the night with tension and endless possibilities.
"Paulsen is skilled at pace, incident and characterization, and he uses them to pull the reader to the memorable--and powerful--last scene...Teenagers will not want to put it down."
--Kirkus Reviews
Ages 10 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.99/$6.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-20582-4
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Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they become men. Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid--the one that will usher him into manhood. He is to be a man for but a short time... More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it was the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find any peace until Coyote Runs' skull is retumed to an ancient sacred place. In a grueling run through the canyon to retum the skull, Brennan faces the challenge of his life.
"Paulsen involves readers so deeply in the lives of both characters...hat the whole becomes a compelling and dramatic experience that is powerful stuff...New and unforgettable."
--School Library Journal
"[A] deft and thought-provoking adventure novel."
--Booklist
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.99/$6.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-21023-2
Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, Audio Cassette, $16.99/$23.99(Can), ISBN: 0-553-45274-6
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Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders has been abandoned by his parents. He has no choice but to go on, and he begins by assembling pieces of a kit car from his father's garage. When he finishes the car known as "the Cat," Terry sets out from Cleveland to Portland to search for an uncle he hardly knows. Along the way Terry picks up a wandering Vietnam vet who ultimately guides him on a journey of discovery and survival.
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-21918-3
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A young boy and his mother spend Christmas 1943 with relatives in northern Minnesota while his father is fighting in the war in Europe. They take a long journey by train to a snowy land of vast frozen lakes, deep and sparkling cold, and the most magical Christmas tree the boy has ever seen. He knows this will be the last Christmas he will spend with his cousin, who is dying. The boy's uncle overhears the two cousins say there is no Santa Claus, and in a grand gesture that is nothing short of a Christmas miracle, he restores the children's faith in the spirit of the season.
This handsome keepsake edition is destined to become a family treasure that will be shared year after year. Complete with a special foreword by Newbery Award-winning author Gary Paulsen, this touching story is sure to capture the hearts of all readers.
"A holiday heartwarmer that will appeal to a wide audience."
--Kirkus Reviews
Ages 8-12
Delacorte Press, Hardcover, $14.95/$19.95(Can), ISBN: 0-385-30441-2
Yearling, Paperback, $3.99/$4.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40958-6
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In 1944 a little boy is sent to stay with his grandmother. Grandma cooks for nine men who are building a road from Minnesota to Canada.
Living in the forest is a great adventure. The little boy helps his grandmother, who gives him her love and delicious things to eat. He plays outdoors each day, and the huge men at the camp give him rides in their trucks and tractors. If only he had his mother. It's hard to be brave with his father fighting in the war and his mother far away in Chicago. Grandma understands his feelings. Can she find a way to help him to return home?
"...Very much like MacLachlan's Sarah, Plain and Tall...a superb book..."
--School Library Journal, Starred
"A memorable evocation of a special time and place..."
--Kirkus Reviews, Pointer
An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
Ages 7-11
Yearling, Paperback, $3.99/$4.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40704-4
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On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end.
Through this exquisite prose poem, Gary Paulsen shares the joy, the beauty, and the grandeur of the outdoors. With his joyous text and Ruth Wright Paulsen's exuberant and expressive illustrations, Dogteam is a celebration of nature, a dance that invites everyone to join in.
"The energy and movement of the piece pull the reader right along through the entire race through the magical time and space to the homeward finish."
--The Horn Book Magazine
"The book recreates an experience unusual in picture books."
--Booklist
All Ages
Illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen
Picture Yearling, Paperback, $5.99/$7.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-41130-0
Delacorte Press, Hardcover, $15.95/$18.95(Can), ISBN: 0-385-30550-8
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Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep. John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.
"...another fine adventure from Paulsen, who deftly blends an action-packed plot and a likable character..."
--Booklist
"The action is nonstop...will have readers plunging over each cliffhanger into the next crisis until they finish the book."
--The Bulletin, Recommended
Ages 10 up
Yearling, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40923-3
Delacorte Press, Hardcover, $15.95/$20.95(Can), ISBN: 0-385-30621-0
Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, Audio Cassette, $17.99/$22.99(Can), ISBN: 0-553-47077-9
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Every morning fifteen-year-old Wil Neuton gets up, brushes his teeth, leaves the house, and rows away from shore. He's discovered the island--a place where he can go to be alone and learn to know nature--and himself. On the island he watches the loons and the fish in the lake, and writes and paints. It feels good to get away from the tension rising between his parents, tension brought on by yet another move to a new town. But Wil can't stay away from the outside world forever. He must face Ray Bunner, the bully determined to challenge him, and his parents, who worry when Wil decides to stay on the island indefinitely. Can Wil bridge the growing gap between himself and the rest of the world?
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-20632-4
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It all begins when Rocky follows Mick Strum around town while he sketches its people, animals and graveyard. Mick has been commissioned by Rocky's Kansas town to create a memorial to their war dead.
As Rocky learns to respect Mick and his talents, he helps her to develop her own artistic sensibilities.It all begins when Rocky follows Mick Strum around town while he sketches its people, animals and graveyard. Mick has been commissioned by Rocky's Kansas town to create a memorial to their war dead.
But the townspeople see things in Mick's drawings that they don't want to know or accept about themselves. Can Mick help them accept one monument that will be meaningful to everyone?
"A powerful, affecting story with its comments on art and homage."
--School Library Journal, Starred
"An intriguing, ironic tale, written vividly and with memorable humor."
--Kirkus Reviews
"In sparse, sensitive, moving prose, Paulsen illuminates a small town and its inhabitants' beautiful and ugly sides to create a tribute to art...a wonderful book that will make you feel special."
--Voice of Youth Advocates
Ages 12 up
Yearling, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40782-6
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An Indian brave stands poised to shoot a white deer drinking from a pool of water in the moonlight. It is only a dream--a recurring nightmare that haunts fifteen-year-old Janet Carson--but it is a dream that will change her forever.
Janet, one of the few Anglo teens in the New Mexico art colony where she lives with her mother, feels isolated and alone. For some reason she is drawn to Billy Honcho, an old alcoholic Indian who begs some money from her. As they get to know each other, the meaning of Janet's dream begins to become clear to her, and Billy becomes the brave in her dreams.
"[Janet's] dream shows her a white deer at the mercy of an Indian brave, aiming an arrow from a taut bow. In Paulsen's eerily poetic writing, the reader finds the message that finally becomes clear to Janet. The novel is an allegory, rooted in the chasm between actualities and pretensions."
--Publishers Weekly
"Well worth reading."
--Kirkus Reviews
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $3.99/$4.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-21092-5
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In 1768, a gunsmith named Cornish McManus built a rifle of such accuracy that he know he could never create another like it. He intended to treasure his masterpiece, but with a new wife to provide for, he felt pressed to sell it. Soon the rifle was helping one John Byam become a legendary sharpshooter in the American Revolution. But when Byam succumbed to dysentery, the weapon was passed on to yet another owner...and then to another and another, until the present day.
Strangely, in all the time of the rifle after John Byam's death and through all the people who looked at it and held it to their shoulder, not once in the life of the rifle did anybody ever think to see if it was loaded.
The rifle was loaded.
"A truly mesmerizing tale, from beginning to end."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred
"[An] engagingly written story of one rifle and its fatal impact on one modern boy."
--School Library Journal
"Paulsen's message is clear and cutting: a machine made for killing, no matter how lovingly crafted and benignly kept, remains a machine made for killing."
--Booklist
"Paulsen is at the peak of his powers in a book that is as shattering as the awful events it depicts. Unforgettable."
--Kirkus Reviews, Pointer
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-21920-5
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They steal a Bible from a cheap motel, find an old army tent, and start raking in the money hand over fist. Steven's father is tired of being poor, so he decides to be a preacher. At first Steven is embarrassed by the way his father lies so easily about God. But he learns to love the buckets of money and learns to play his part in the hustle. They set up shop on the outskirts of dusty Texas towns and start to work their way through the South, saving souls. Along the way, they find out whether they can save their own.
"A sincere and thoughtful story about spiritual growth."
--The Bulletin
"Readers will feel the main characters' dilemma in having to choose between material wealth and doing the right thing. The Tent may surprise Paulsen's many fans, but it will not disappoint them."
--School Library Journal
"Paulsen's gift for conveying story and character in spare language is evident here...the book will find an audience, both among confirmed Paulsen fans and among reluctant readers."
--Booklist
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.99/$6.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-21919-1
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The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes. Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter," and what happens next is terrible--then wonderful.
A Newbery Honor Book.
Ages 12 up
Laurel Leaf, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-22783-6
Yearling, Paperback, $4.50/$5.99(Can), ISBN: 0-440-40454-1
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