portal How Angel Peterson Got His Name is a nonfiction, young adult memoir written by Gary Paulsen, outlining the experiences of Paulsen and his friends...

learns how to survive on his own in the vast wilderness, with nothing but his windbreaker and a hatchet—a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane...

building snow shoes, being confronted by a bear, befriending and naming a skunk and learning how to make a bow more powerful. Eventually, Brian meets a family...

urban society and is sent to see a psychologist, a blind ex-police officer named Caleb. Caleb recognizes that Brian's home is the wilderness. At Caleb's...

Brian Books (2001) Caught by the Sea - My Life on Boats (2001) How Angel Peterson Got His Name (2003) This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs...

woods are now his home and he will never be happy in modern society with its noise, pollution, and inauthentic people. He now spends his time in the wild...

that book, Paulsen discusses how he survived between the ages of twelve and fourteen back in Minnesota. He barely mentions his parents except to say that...

gifted ambulance from a city that had recently bought new ones. He tells of how he was attacked by many moose, mosquitoes, and deer flies. He says he once...

arrives in Anchorage two months before the race, and quickly realizes just how little he still knows about running the Iditarod. As he prepares himself...

ownership of a soldier in the Revolution named John Byam. After Byam's death, the rifle passes to a woman named Sarah, who stores it in an attic, where...