Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.

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 author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

Francis Tucket, Lottie, and Billy have survived many hair-raising adventures, joined together by their goal to find the family Francis lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. And now they are also joined by a secret -- the gold they discovered in a Spanish grave. This time, the trio meets up with a British adventurer and bloodthirsty ex-soldiers, and has a tragic, heroic encounter with Jason Grimes, the mountain man. In...

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.

"His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen,...