Gary Paulsen

Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep....

Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men....

In This Side of Wild, which has taken a lifetime to write, Paulsen proves the ways in which animals have taught him to be a better person....

Six students find themselves stuck in a tiny, questionably smelly space - a school bathroom - with a stuffed cat for entertainment. Hijinks ensue, and the unexpected happens....

Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it....

As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges....

These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for 54 days with nothing but a small hatchet....

Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live...

Ben has been invited to try out for a special hockey academy. But Dad wants Ben to catch up to the school field trip instead....

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness....

Gary Paulsen introduces listeners to Charley Goddard in his latest novel, Soldier's Heart. Charley goes to war a boy, and returns a changed man, crippled by what he has seen....

Dad and Ben haven't been getting along recently and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect....

They are four different people with four separate lives....

Carley would rather have been anywhere but here: a town deep in Minnesota’s farm country, with nothing plentiful except poverty....

I should have seen it coming. A long time before it came I should have known.I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy....

Tired of being poor, Steven’s father, Corey, is certain that preaching the Word of the Lord is the way to fame and fortune. So father and son take off in their dilapidated truck, with a stolen Bible and a leaky army tent....

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....

Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to be unnoticed. But he won't be unnoticed now. If he wants to pass English, he has to work on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz....

As a punishment for lying, Kevin has lost his allowance. He doesn’t lie now, but he’s broke....

Harold Schernoff, fourteen-year-old science whiz and social outcast, has a theory to solve every problem....