Gary Paulsen
22) Alida's Song
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
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 brothers.
24) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.
25) The monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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 a war memorial.
26) Dogteam
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end.
27) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
28) Nightjohn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
29) The cookcamp
Author
Series
Alida volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
30) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
31) Grizzly
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Justin McCallister loves life on his aunt and uncle's Montana sheep ranch...until a grizzly bear begins terrorizing the livestock, injuring Justin's collie, Radar, and killing his pet lamb, Blue. Justin decides to take matters into his own hands and sets out to track down the bear. But things become more dangerous than Justin ever could have imagined when he comes face-to-face with the grizzly.
34) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
35) Woodsong
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Description
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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 to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
37) The foxman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
After Sam's anthropoligist father fails to meet them at the airport, cousins Katie, Sam and Shala set out for the ancient cliff dwellings located across a deep and rocky canyon at El Debajo.
39) Mudshark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.
40) The car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.