Gary Paulsen
1) Tracker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and coming to hate his role as hunter.
2) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
3) The Cookcamp
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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.
4) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
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.
7) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-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.
10) Tucket's gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
12) The Foxman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts hears a cry for help over her CB radio, she races into a forest fire to rescue two trapped children and is chased by ruthless poachers.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
Will veered to the left and ducked into one of the passages leading away from the palace room. Sarah stumbled and fell. Will pulled her up. They could hear the big man closing in on them. Will took another left turn and then another. Scarface’s footsteps echoed in their ears.
Deep in the damp, dark caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, Will Little Bear Tucker and his friend Sarah Thompson discover the secret of an ancient...
Deep in the damp, dark caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, Will Little Bear Tucker and his friend Sarah Thompson discover the secret of an ancient...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.
16) The rock jockeys
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 4
Language
English
Description
The rock wall above them was as smooth as polished black marble. There were no crevices and no ledges. They would have to fight for every inch. Rick looked at his friends. J.D. and Spud nodded silently. Rick stood up and started. His job would be to make the trail. Their job was to make sure he lived through it.
High atop treacherous Devil’s Wall, The Rock Jockeys find much to explore. Sheer mountain cliffs. Wild...
High atop treacherous Devil’s Wall, The Rock Jockeys find much to explore. Sheer mountain cliffs. Wild...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tag and his friend are determined to find a sunken ship full of treasure that lies somewhere in the waters near Bermuda. But when two tourists ask them to retrieve some mysterious underwater parcels for them, the boys find themselves in dangerous waters.
18) Captive!
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roman Sanchez, still suffering from the death of his father, must use all his skills and knowledge to save himself and the lives of three classmates when they are kidnapped from school and held for ransom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...