ALSO BY GARY PAULSEN
Alida's Song
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
The Boy Who Owned the School
The Brian Books: The River, Brian's Winter
and Brian's Return
Canyons
The Car
Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats
The Cookcamp
The Crossing
Dogsong
Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing
and Hunting in the North Woods
Harris and Me
Hatchet
The Haymeadow
The Island
The Monument
My Life in Dog Years
Nightjohn
The Night the White Deer Died
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers
The Rifle
Sarny: A Life Remembered
The Schernoff Discoveries
Soldier's Heart
The Transall Saga
The Tucket Adventures, Books One through Five
The Voyage of the Frog
The White Fox Chronicles
The Winter Room
Picture books, illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen:
Canoe Days and Dogteam
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