Gary Paulsen

My husband read me excerpts from a book by this author about his dream to participate in the Iditarod. Now, I am reading HATCHET for the first time by the same author about a boy who crashes into the Canadian wilderness and survives for about 54 days. It is an incredible story. The story was so popular that he wrote a few more books about the same boy, some additional stories and some "what if" stories...BRIAN'S HUNT, BRIAN'S WINTER, BRIAN'S RETURN, THE RIVER...all good. If you want to read stories about survival, these are the books for you. It is said that the author based his stories on things that actually happened...though the stories are not true.