Gary Paulsen
42) Harris and Me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
43) Tucket's ride
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.
44) Dancing Carl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.
46) Canoe days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
Author
Series
Tales to Tickle the Funnybone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life - from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The fire was close, too close. Nikki's eyes were blurred by smoke and sweat. The trees crackled and the wind carried red-hot splinters that singed holes in the children's clothes and stung their skin. Where they stood would soon be nothing but blackened stalks and burnt earth. There was only one hope of escape!
Author
Series
Nightjohn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 18
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Andy Hawkes decides to use one of his grandfather's inventions to uncover the cause of his parent's deaths and discover who is threatening Grandfater Hawke's life.