Gary Paulsen

Try your hand at basic wilderness survival skills, just like Brian in The Hatchet! This camp will allow student students to experience many of the skills in the books including shelter building, foraging for edible plants, hanging bear bags, and basic first aid. Students will also learn to write their own adventure stories and make primitive crafts. We will read real-life survival tales and discuss different survival strategies. This camp includes a rustic overnight at the boy scout cabin site at Upper Fetcher Ranch on Thursday night.

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99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It by Chuck Collins Friday, February 8th, 7:00pm at Longfellow Books

The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works for 99% of people and businesses, not just the richest and most powerful 1%. But who are the 99%? Who are the 1%? How extensive and systemic is inequality in different areas of society? What are its causes and consequence? How is inequality changing in our world? And what can be done about it? For many years Chuck Collins has been a top leader in studying, speaking about, and writing about these questions. In this book he brings together in one place, for the first time, information that has been widely scattered in many different articles, reports, and websites. He provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today’s world, including individual wealth and power, corporate wealth and power, media control, political influence, and other areas. He then describes the functioning of the Wall Street Inequality Machine and describes how inequality wrecks everything we care about. And he tells how people and groups are pushing back against inequality and taking action to reduce inequality and create a world that works for the many and not just the few. 99 to 1 offers "a clear and incisive understanding of how we got here," (Samantha Corbin, Occupy Wall Street) and "makes a compelling case for how we can work together." (Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP President and CEO) Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I4oy9itJhV0 " target="_blank" title="Chuck Collins video">here to watch an author video with Chuck Collins and come over to Longfellow Books Friday, Feb. 8th at 7:00pm to hear him read, answer questions and, of course, sign books. As always, Longfellow Books Meet the Author events are free and open to the public.

Location: Street: One Monument Way City: Portland, Province: Maine Postal Code: 04101-4078 Country: United States ()… (more)

Gary Paulsen

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel’s parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters, New York City.
It is Paulsen's overwhelming belief in young people that drives him to write. His intense desire to tap deeply into the human spirit and to encourage readers to observe and care about the world around them has brought him both enormous popularity with young people and critical acclaim from the children's book community. Paulsen is a master storyteller who has written more than 175 books and some 200 articles and short stories for children and adults. He is one of the most important writers of young adult literature today and three of his novels — Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room — were Newbery Honor Books. His books frequently appear on the best books lists of the American Library Association. (booksense)… (more)

Gary Paulsen reads from Woods Runner.

We are delighted to welcome back Gary Paulsen, distinguished author of books for young people. In Woods Runner, Paulsen tells the exciting story of a 13-year-old frontier boy dodging British soldiers and Iroquois attacks in pre-revolutionary America. Will young Samuel join the dangerous Patriot cause? Also new is the Lawn Boy sequel, Lawn Boy Returns. (cindysku)… (more)