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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.

Harris and Me

A Summer Remembered

by Paulsen, Gary

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 introdu...

The Haymeadow

by Paulsen, Gary & Paulsen, Ruth Wright

Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.

The Monument

by Paulsen, Gary

Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design...

The Cookcamp

by Paulsen, Gary

During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

The Boy Who Owned the School

by Paulsen, Gary

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.

The winter room

by Paulsen, Gary

A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logg...

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...

Sentries

by Paulsen, Gary

The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, ...