Gary Paulsen
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 17
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Sam's anthropoligist father fails to meet them at the airport, cousins Katie, Sam and Shala set out for the ancient cliff dwellings located across a deep and rocky canyon at El Debajo.
4) Grizzly
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 15
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Justin McCallister loves life on his aunt and uncle's Montana sheep ranch...until a grizzly bear begins terrorizing the livestock, injuring Justin's collie, Radar, and killing his pet lamb, Blue. Justin decides to take matters into his own hands and sets out to track down the bear. But things become more dangerous than Justin ever could have imagined when he comes face-to-face with the grizzly.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 11
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jesse Rodriguez has a pretty exciting job for a 13-year-old, working for his friend Buck at a small flight and skydiving school near Seattle. But he still can't wait to turn 16 and finally be old enough to make his first free-fall jump from a plane. Buck has been like a father to him ever since Jesse's dad died, and has made sure that Jesse picks up all he needs to know about skydiving while he does odd jobs around the airport. But Jesse and his...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 13
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ryan Swanner and his mom just moved to the mountain resort of Black Water Lake. The locals say that beneath the lake's seemingly calm surface, a giant, ancient creature lives. But Ryan's new friend Rita tells him that's just hogwash. She's not afraid to go fishing out on the lake, even though, oddly, the lake seems to be nearly empty of fish. One day Ryan sees a small animal fall from a tree into the lake--and never surface again....
7) Field trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben and his twin classmates, Charlotte and Jacob, are missing a school field trip so Ben's father takes them, his new apprentice Brig, and the dogs on an adventure. Ben manages to try out for a hockey academy against his parents' wishes and the twins turn the road trip into a learning experience.
8) Time benders
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 14
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Zack moved to the back of the room, where an elderly scientist was hunched over a table. The man looked suspiciously at the two boys. "Are you interested in time bending?"
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 16
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Strange things keep happening at the Thunder Valley Ski Lodge since twin brothers Jeremy and Jason have been left to run the business on their own.