Happy birthday Mr. Paulsen!

It's Gary Paulsen's birthday!

Here are the books of his that we have in the young adult department.  They're all in Action/Adventure!

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.

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 survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

The story is about Brian's return to the forest because he can not fit in back home. He keeps diary entries of which he shares with Celeb, a psychiatrist who truly believes in Brian's calling to the woods.

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

Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.