Much of Paulsen's work features the outdoors and highlights the importance of nature. Often in his novels, a character masters the art of survival in isolation as a rite of passage to manhood and maturity. Paulsen's best-known books, the Hatchet series, are examples of this approach.
MRC has several of Gary Paulsen's books in our collection (he basically gets his own shelf, really), including...
- Hatchet
- The River
- The Island
- Harris & Me: A Summer Remembered
- The Winter Room
- Canyons
- Woodsong
- Dogsong
- The Glass Cafe, or The Stripper and the State: How My Mother Started a War with the System that Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous
- The Car
- My Life in Dog Years [nonfiction]
- Guts [nonfiction]