Gary Paulsen
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
4) The car
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The author describes his motorcycle journey through Minnesota and the Rockies to the Alaskan Highway, recalling the events in his life that have made him the man he is today.
7) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-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.