Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
Gary Paulsen, Dan Bittner
3.94 · 18 ratings · Published: 12 Jan 2021
His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the Army, he would not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller.
- action / adventure 3
- survival 3
- children 3
- great outdoors 3
- family 2
- historical 2
- coming of age 2
- war/big battles 2
- bullying 2
- animals 2
- grief 2
- historical fiction 1
- poverty 1
- world war II 1
- literary fiction 1
- military, war & conflict 1
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- non-fiction 3
- middle grade 3
- audiobook 3
- young adult 3
- book 1
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- abuse 2
- substance abuse 1
- child abuse 1