Gary Paulsen

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.

When supremely organized seventh-grader, Molly McGinty, loses the notebook she relies on to keep her life in order she spends the day in chaos.

Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.

"Thirteen-year-old Ryan Swanner and his mom have just moved to the resort of Black Water Lake. The lake is as dark as its name, and locals say that beneath its calm surface a giant, ancient creature lives. Ryan's not sure whether to believe them, until the day he sees a small animal fall from a tree branch into the lake--and never surface again. Something is in the lake. And it's alive"--Cover.

Camouflaged as piles of rotting trash, Dunc Culpepper and his best friend for life Amos Binder are sneaking around the town dump. Dunc wants to find out who is polluting the garbage at the dump with hazardous and toxic waste. Amos just wants to impress Melissa. Can either of them succeed?

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.

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.

Portrays the excitement, the danger, and the beauty of a night run.