num_pages: 368
description: A middle grade memoir giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories.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.
language: English
title: Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)