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The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds, now with a striking new cover look to celebrate its 30th anniversary

An incredible, breathtaking true adventure of Alaskan dog-racing and of the mesmerising Arctic landscape

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel's parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters, New York City.

A brand new sequel to the classic survival story, 'Hatchet'. In 'Hatchet', 13 year old Brian was stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness. Somehow - with determination, new-found skills and, of course, the hatchet - he survived and was rescued in the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if Brian had been left to confront his deadliest enemy - winter? Paulsen wrote 'Hatchet Winter' in response to the thousands of readers who wrote and asked him how Brian would have coped.

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 on his bike-the work of mapping his life to find meaning-is of a piece with the pure sweat and muscle of youthful days spent on farms in Minnesota, or at the bottom of septic tank pits in Colorado, or wrangling dogsleds through the Alaskan wilderness. Amid the silence and beauty of running the road on his Harley, Paulsen celebrates the comforts of hard work, the thrill of challenge met bravely, and the peculiar joys of life lived to its fullest.

Age group 9-11. A format. The thrilling sequel to the unforgettable survival adventure 'Hatchet'.

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.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?

An edge-of-your seat adventure by Gary Paulsen, the master of high-stakes survival stories and the author of &i>Hatchet&/i>.

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories.

America, 1955. For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.