Harris and Me
Title | Harris and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152058807 |
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Nightjohn
Title | Nightjohn PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2011-08-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307804224 |
"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading." -- Nightjohn "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. To learn."--Sarny Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. It is a meticulously researched, historically accurate, and artistically crafted portrayal of a grim time in our nation's past, brought to light through the personal history of two unforgettable characters.
Escape from Fire Mountain
Title | Escape from Fire Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Yearling |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2008-12-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307522962 |
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims.
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady
Title | Tripping Over the Lunch Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy E. Mercado |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Children's stories, American |
ISBN | 9780142406243 |
An anthology of ten humorous short stories about life in school, written by well-known authors of children's books.
The Schernoff Discoveries
Title | The Schernoff Discoveries PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Yearling |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2011-08-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307804186 |
Harold Schernoff, 14-year-old science whiz and social nerd, has a theory for every problem, from dating, to bullies, to making money, to sports, to how to buy a car when you're underage. When he and his buddy team up to put his theories to the test, nothing goes according to plan. A ski lesson becomes: Mass x Acceleration x Slope of hill = eeeAAGGHHH. As for first dates, only Harold could mastermind such disaster. Only Harold could go fishing and get caught by the fish. And only Gary Paulsen could write such a wonderfully funny story of friendship.
Sarny
Title | Sarny PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2011-08-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307804232 |
Many readers of Nightjohn have wanted to know what happened to Sarny, the young slave whom Nightjohn taught to read. Here is Sarny's story, from the moment she leaves the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Her search takes her to New Orleans and the home of the mysterious and remarkable Miss Laura. Like Nightjohn, Miss Laura changes Sarny's life, and she helps Sarny pass Nightjohn's gift on to new generations. This riveting saga follows Sarny until her last days in the 1930s and gives readers a panoramic view of America in a time of trial, tragedy, and hoped-for change.
Woodsong
Title | Woodsong PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Dogsledding |
ISBN | 0027702219 |
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.