When Senmut's sculpting chisel slips from his fingers, accidentally killing a sacred dove, Egyptian priests exile the 9-year-old boy to a lifetime of hard labor in the gold mines of Nubia.

 

 

In this unique retelling of a young boy's struggle to survive in the Canadian wilderness, Paulsen raises the stakes with the question: What if Brian hadn't been rescued at the end of summer, but instead had been left to confront his deadliest enemy, a northern winter?

 

 

It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and when 10-year-old Bud decides to hit the road to find his father, nothing can stop him.

 

 

A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.

 

Here is a mature story of a poor adolescent girl's concern for a peer whose life challenges are more taxing than her own.

 

 

Clay Garrity lived a normal life until his father lost his job and abandoned the family. Now his pregnant mother has deserted him too.