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Tucket's Gold

by Paulsen, Gary

Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their ...

Alida's Song

by Paulsen, Gary

A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brother...

The Transall Saga

by Paulsen, Gary

While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his k...

The voyage of the Frog

by Paulsen, Gary

When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on hi...

Sarny

A Life Remembered

by Paulsen, Gary

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks an...

The Schernoff Discoveries

by Paulsen, Gary

Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other d...

Brian's Winter

by Paulsen, Gary

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 survi...

Call Me Francis Tucket

by Paulsen, Gary

Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues t...

The Tent

A Parable in One Sitting

by Paulsen, Gary

Although dismayed and embarrassed when his father takes him on the road to get rich preaching the word of God, fourteen-year-old Steven finds himself caught up...

The Car

by Paulsen, Gary

A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.