Sarah L. Thomson: Creating Worlds to Explore

Gary Paulsen: Library of Author Biographies

Ages: 9-12
Category: Nonfiction
Publisher: Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date: January 2003
ISBN: 978-0823937738
Hardcover, $31.95

A biography of the adventurous man who wrote Hatchet, the ultimate wilderness survival story. Paulsen’s own life reads like a scene from one of his novels as he travels across Alaska by dogsled, teaches himself to sail, finds meaning and fulfillment in the wilderness.