Gary Paulsen

Carl a 12 ans (bientôt 13 !) et déjà, sa vie l’épuise. La raison ? Son père, super écolo, antisystème et adepte de la récup’. Sauver la planète et vivre simplement, d’accord. Mais faire les poubelles

Carl a 12 ans (bientôt 13 !) et déjà, sa vie l’épuise. La raison ? Son père, super écolo, antisystème et adepte de la récup’. Sauver la planète et vivre simplement, d’accord. Mais faire les poubelles

From three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen comes a laugh-out-loud novel about six wacky misfits who get stuck together in a school restroom and discover friendship.It seemed like a normal school day, until a horrible storm forced the very cautious school administration to make everyone hole up in a safe place. Six students find themselves stuck in a tiny, questionably smelly spacea school bathroomwith a stuffed cat for entertainment. Hijinks ensue and the unexpected happens. They enter as strangersand leave as friends.Get to know the story even better with a special script that accompanies the novel, so any six kids can get together with their friends and perform the story anywhere theyd like.

An orphan reflects on the lessons he was taught by the wise old man who raised him in this lyrical novel that reads like poetry from three-time Newbery Honorwinning author Gary Paulsen.Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy hes raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbones Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tellall true, but different each time.

Dancing Carl, Gary Paulsens first novel, was a ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Notable Childrens Trade Book for the Language Arts.In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch. It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carls dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carls dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.

In the National Book Award longlist book This Side of Wild, Newbery Honorwinning author Gary Paulsen 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 companions: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds, and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals know more than we may fathom.His understanding and admiration of animals is well known, and in This Side of Wild, which has taken a lifetime to write, he proves the ways in which they have taught him to be a better person.

Nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweave in the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep ranchers daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.They are four different people with four separate lives: Sue, a young woman distanced from her native roots; David, a traveler in search of a dream; Laura, a student seeking her parents understanding; and Peter, a rock star struggling to create the perfect sound. One looming fate threatens them all. And everything they love may be taken away in one fleeting second....

In the old days there were songs...Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his fathers 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 Russels 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 alone. Driven by a strange, powerful dream of a long-ago self and by a burning desire to find his own song, Russel takes Oogruks dogs on an epic journey of self-discovery that will change his life forever.

Celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Newbery Honorwinning survival novel Hatchet with a pocket-sized edition perfect for travelers to take along on their own adventures. This special anniversary edition includes a new introduction and commentary by author Gary Paulsen, pen-and-ink illustrations by Drew Willis, and a water resistant cover. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read.Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mothers infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present.At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skillshow to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fireand even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents.

A young hunter must confront the value of life as he faces the loss of his grandfather.For John Bornes family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. Its a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter. But this year Johns grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life.

From Gary Paulsen, the bestselling and much-loved author of Hatchet, comes another high-stakes survival story about a young boy on the knife-edge between life and death, where the raging seas meet a coastal wilderness.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, thrown from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer Leif comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the sea.A stunning historical adventure with hints of Nordic mythology and an irresistible narrative pull, Northwind is Gary Paulsen at his captivating, adventuresome best.

From the author of the bestselling Hatchet comes a true story of high-stakes wilderness survival!If not for his six-hundred-mile journey from the busy Chicago city to a captivating Minnesotan farm aged five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book aged thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his daring teenage enlistment in the army, he might not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller.Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing Up in the Wild is the entrancing true story of Gary Paulsens childhood, of grit and growing up, and is the acclaimed author at his rawest and most real.

From Gary Paulsen, the award-winning author of Hatchet, comes a laugh-out-loud eco-adventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his dad; he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for salvageable junk and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will think and encouraged by his riotous best friend Carl decides to use a puppy-training pamphlet to retrain his dads mindset . . . a crackpot experiment that produces some hilarious results!How To Train Your Dad is a fierce and funny novel about family, friendship and green-living from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.

Family fun takes center stage in three-time Newbery Honor winner Gary Paulsens hilarious novel for middle-school boys. Kevin Spencer is the glue that holds his family together. When his wacky relatives decide to have a double wedding in the backyard, Kevin takes charge. Planning two weddings is a great way to impress his girlfriend, Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful and Best-Smelling Girl in the World. But as more and more relatives come to stay, things spiral out of control. Tying the knot has Kevin tied up in knots in this laugh-out-loud story. When it comes to telling funny stories about boys, no one surpasses Paulsen.Booklist [Paulsen is] one of the best-loved writers alive.The New York TimesPraise for Family TiesKevin seems to truly have his heart in the right place as he tries to bring order to the disparate parts [of his family] and restore some missing familial affection.Kirkus Reviews The Spencers may not be a conventionally perfect family, but by the end of the novel it is clear that, despite their oddball antics, they are a loving one. Fans of the series and new readers will enjoy this offering.School Library Journal[A] goofy, rollicking ride.The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

Best friends for life Dunc and Amos have a small problem when they try hang glidingthey crash in the wilderness. Luckily, Amos has read a book about a boy who survived in the wilderness for 54 days. Too bad Amos doesnt have a hatchet. Things go from bad to worse when a wild man holds the boys captive. Can anything save them now?