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Author: Gary Paulsen
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
to him in legal terms how all that he lived in was coming apart-and the breaking and shattering of all the solid things. His home, his life-all the solid things. Divorce. A breaking word,
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Gary Paulsen _ The Legend of Red Horse Cavern
Will, have you been paying attention to the number of times we had to go one passage farther than the first left?""I've been trying to. Why?""This place is really getting to me. I don't like the idea of spending the rest of my life down here."Will sighed. "Relax, Sarah. Just lie down and go to sleep.""Humor me and tell me how many times.""Okay. Three. We've hit three dead ends.""It's four, Will.""I knew that. I was just checking to see if you were on your toes.
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Gary Paulsen _ Winterdance: The Fine Madness
I'm sorry. I was just running them. Running the dogs." I swallowed more soup and looked at the sky. The cold air was so clear the stars seemed to be falling to the ground. Like you could walk right. . . over . . . there and pick them up just lying on the snow. "I couldn't come back.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
So this summer, this first summer when he was allowed to have "visitation rights" with his father, with the divorce only one month old, Brian was heading north. His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended. Brian was riding up from New York with some drilling equipment-it was lashed down in the rear of the plane next to a fabric bag the pilot had called a survival pack, which had emergency supplies in case they had to make an emergency landing-that had to be specially made in the city, riding in the bushplane with the pilot named Jim or Jake or something who had turned out to be an all right guy, letting him fly and all.
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Gary Paulsen _ This Side of Wild: Mutts,
Had it been just the two of us with the flock, I am sure it would have been a complete disaster. But Louie came with a helper, partner, friend, second brain: a border collie named {he must have wanted the similarities in names} Louise, and she quickly-after watching me for a moment and seeing how useless I was-took over completely.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian. When the plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted him and dropped him and left him with nothing.
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Gary Paulsen _ Hatchet
If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you'll come to bad luck.
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Gary Paulsen _ Molly McGinty Has a Really
There's nothing wrong with bad habits...Where would we be without our bad habits? They're what separates us from the dreary souls amongst us.
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Gary Paulsen _ The Foxman
Sometimes it would be nice if life just kept happening the way it's happening, if things got to a good place and just stayed there, didn't change.
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Gary Paulsen _ The River
demanding. He turned to see Derek, who was coming up the back of the hill. "See the fish-
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Gary Paulsen _ Christmas Sonata
Gone. We were out in the country and everything slowed down into rolling hills covered with snow. There were trees, but no leaves, and I could not remember seeing anything so white and clean. Winter in the city was gray and the snow was dirty, but out here it was so bright it hurt my eyes and I had to turn away.
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