If you've asked your librarian or have searched for books that appeal to boys, you are sure to have come across the name of Gary Paulsen. He has written hundreds of books and received numerous awards and starred reviews for his books for the older children and young adults. (We want to quickly note that these books aren't only for guys. Pam and her tweener daughter love them.)
Teachers and Homeschoolers frequently use his historical novels as additions to their History Units, and there are teacher notes available for most of Paulsen's books.
This page is a work in progress. Right now we are working on adding reading level information and providing short descriptions, as well as links to Amazon where many of Gary's older works can be had for mere pennies.
The Tortilla Factory La Tortillería
Reading Information:
Word Count: 142
Reading Level: 2.7
Interest Level: 2-5
Accelerated Reading level: 2.7 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 18383 AR quiz: 18383 SP Lexile: 510L
Full of Hot Air
A witty look at hot air ballooning.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 782
Reading Level: 3.0
Interest Level: elementary
Accelerated Reading level: 3.0 / points: 0.5 AR quiz: 7567
Worksong
Description: Illustrations and rhyming text depict people doing all kinds of work.
Word Count: 177
Accelerated Reading level: 3.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 35675
Lexile: AD290L
This page is a work in progress. Right now we are working on adding reading level information and providing short descriptions, as well as links to Amazon where many of Gary's older works can be had for mere pennies.
The Tortilla Factory La Tortillería
Descriptions: A lyrical tribute to the Mexican farm workers as they plant and harvest corn that will be turned into tortillas. Las tortillas son clásicas de la cultura mexicana, ¿cómo se hacen? ¿con qué se hacen? Conoce esto y más en este interesante y poético libro.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Sandpiper
- ISBN-10: 0152016988
- Look Inside available
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 142
Reading Level: 2.7
Interest Level: 2-5
Accelerated Reading level: 2.7 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 18383 AR quiz: 18383 SP Lexile: 510L
Full of Hot Air
A witty look at hot air ballooning.
- Pages: unknown
- Publisher: Delacorte Press
- ISBN-10: 0385308876
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 782
Reading Level: 3.0
Interest Level: elementary
Accelerated Reading level: 3.0 / points: 0.5 AR quiz: 7567
Worksong
Description: Illustrations and rhyming text depict people doing all kinds of work.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Sandpiper (May 1, 2000)
- ISBN-10: 0152023712
- Look Inside available
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Word Count: 177
Accelerated Reading level: 3.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 35675
Lexile: AD290L
The Tucket Adventures
by Gary Paulsen
The Tucket series features 14-year-old Francis Tucket in the era of the Oregon Trail. His travels with his family are interrupted when he strays and gets captured by the Pawnee. With some help he escapes, but the road back to his family is anything but smooth. We highly recommend the Tucket's Travels collection for value and some rip-roaring adventure. Lots of adventure here.
Interest Level: 4th grade - 8th grade and up
The Tucket's Travels
by Gary Paulsen
At $8 bucks, this book -- which contains all of Tucket's adventures -- is a deal. (The other books are around $5 each!)
At this price it definitely ought to be considered for the home shelves.
Tucket's Travels - Books 1-5 (the entire series)
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Yearling
- ISBN-10: 0440419670
- Look Inside available
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Mr. Tucket
by Gary Paulsen
*starred review* Publishers Weekly
Reading Information:
Word Count: 29,783
Reading Level: 5.0
Accelerated Reading level: 5.0 / points: 4.0
AR quiz: 11481
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Call Me Francis Tucket
by Gary Paulsen
See our Review here
Reading Information:
Reading Level: 5.5
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 14136
Look Inside available
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Tucket's Ride
by Gary Paulsen
Reading Information:
Word Count: 17,256
Reading Level: 4.8
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 14146
Look Inside available
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Tucket's Goldby Gary Paulsen
Reading Information:
Word Count: 17,438
Reading Level: 5.2
Accelerated Reading level: 5.2 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 32262
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Tucket's Homeby Gary Paulsen
Reading Information:
Word Count: 14,632
Reading Level: 5.2
Accelerated Reading level: 5.2 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 44730
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We highly recommend these kid-parent-and-teacher approved books.
Woods Runner
by Gary Paulsen
**starred review Kirkus**
Set in the time of the American Revolution, Paulsen does not sugar coat all aspects of the war.
The story is about frontier born 13-year-old Samuel. Life seems perfect until his parents and neighbors are taken captive by the British and sent to a New York prison.
Word Count: 32,659
Reading Level: 5.5
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 5.0
AR quiz: 134843
- Look Inside available
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We will be adding further information on many more Gary Paulsen books, including the following:
Brian's Saga -
Brian Robeson's life is in transition. His parents have recently divorced and he's not sure exactly how he feels about this. Still he gets in a small Cessna and heads off to visit his father who now leaves in the Canadian mountains. What happens next puts all his other problems into the back seat. The pilot has a heart attack and dies and Brian ends up crashing into a lake deep in the woods. The plane sinks and Brian finds that all he has to live on is his wits and a hatchet.
Hatchet is a great story about survival and coming of age as Brian discovers that self-pity and despair don't work nearly so well and just waking up and slogging through the day, doing the best he can.
Hatchet is a great story about survival and coming of age as Brian discovers that self-pity and despair don't work nearly so well and just waking up and slogging through the day, doing the best he can.
Paulsen's character of Brian and his adventure was so popular that it's now in it's 20th year, and readers have demanded to know more about what happened to this boy who survived for over 54 days in the forest. We've listed the entire series below.
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen**Newbery Honor Book****Starred Review Kirkus****Starred Review BookList**
**An ALA Notable Book**
**Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award**
**Georgia Children's Book Awards**
**Young Hoosier Book Awards**
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 20th Anniversary Edition
- ISBN-10: 1416925082
- Look Inside available
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 42,328
Reading Level: 5.7
Accelerated Reading level: 5.7 / points: 7.0 / quiz: 367
A Literature Unit for Hatchet
This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book presents an exciting approach to teaching well-known literature! It includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and many ideas for culminating and extending the novel.
The River
by Gary Paulsen
Word Count: 27,563
Reading Level: 5.5
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 4.0
AR quiz: 7023
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Yearling
- ISBN-10: 0440407532
- Look Inside available
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Brian's Winter
by Gary Paulsen
Word Count: 31,140
Reading Level: 5.9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.9 / points: 5.0
AR quiz: 11704
- Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- ISBN-10: 0440227194
- Look Inside available
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Brian's Return
by Gary Paulsen
Word Count: 23,780
Reading Level: 5.5
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 4.0
AR quiz: 25297
- Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- ISBN-10: 0440413796
- Look Inside available
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Brian's Hunt
by Gary Paulsen
Word Count: 21,890
Reading Level: 5.9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.9 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 76894
- Mass Market Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- ISBN-10: 0553494155
- Look Inside available
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Nightjohn and Sarney
Please note that while Nightjohn is suitable for older elementary aged children, middle-graders and young adults, that Sarny may only be appropriate for Young Adults.
NIGHTJOHN
Nightjohn is a slave who returns from freedom in the north to enlighten others, to inform them there is a life beyond ignorance and despair. This is a fabulous book to use in a history unit on the Civil War. Paulsen exposes the life of a slave without being overly bleak. Inspiring.
Word Count: 10,801
Reading Level: 3.8
Accelerated Reading level: 3.8 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 9993
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Sarney: A Life Remembered
Description: In this grim follow up to Nightjohn readers find out what happened to Sarny, the little girl Nightjohn taught to read. Yes, she is freed at the end of the war, but not before her husband is worked to death and her little children are sold.
There are adult themes here and so we feel this book is strictly YA.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 35,340
Reading Level: 4.6
Interest Level: 7th+
Accelerated Reading level: 4.6 / points: 5.0
AR quiz: 25237
Alida's series
The Cookcamp
Description: During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic (June 1, 2003)
- ISBN-10: 0439523575
- Look Inside available
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Reading Information:
Word Count:
Reading Level: 5.0
Interest Level: middle-grades and up
Accelerated Reading level: 5.0 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 5969
Alida's Song
Description: Once again, Paulsen adeptly addresses readers whose comprehension level may be far lower than their age and interest levels. Without writing down to them, this tribute to the grandmother introduced in The Cookcamp (1991) is an eloquent little novel whose simplicity is its greatest strength. An invitation from his grandmother frees a 14-year-old boy from an oppressive life with alcoholic parents and places him in the staid, wholesome environment of a northern Minnesota farm. Working with two elderly Norwegian brothers, the boy is quietly transformed by the genuine love and selflessness that helps him see life--and himself--in a more compassionate light. Leisurely paced and never melodramatic, the slender plot is as integral to the novel's appeal as the glowing character of the grandmother, whose goodness intensifies as the narrator matures and discovers the true extent of her sacrifices. Roger Leslie
- Hardcover: 96 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
- ISBN-10: 038532586X
- Look Inside available
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Reading Information:
Word Count:
Reading Level: 5.3
Interest Level: middle-grades and up
Accelerated Reading level: 5.3 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 31159
The Quilt
Description: A companion to Alida’ s Song and The Cookcamp, Gary Paulsen's The Quilt spends another summer with "the boy" and his grandmother, Alida. World War II is being fought in Europe, and the boy’s mother, working in a munitions factory in Chicago, sends her six-year-old son to stay with his grandmother in Minnesota. When Alida’s neighbor Kristina goes into labor, Alida packs up the boy and goes to Kristina’s farm to help. Mystified, the boy watches as other women arrive, water is boiled, and a quilt is brought out. Now it’s time to listen, as the quilt--through the women--tells its stories about family, love, loss, and strength. As in Paulsen’s many other semi-autobiographical stories for young readers (the Brian books, Guts, etc.), the author’s voice is never far beneath the surface. His bitterness towards his own mother, for example (as revealed in the foreword), comes across in lines like this: "Soon, though, other people--men--came to visit her and she started to do very grown-up things. He did not fit in, and when life with his mother became too difficult, he went to live with his grandmother." Although this presence may be irritating to some readers, the details of a remembered time on a farm with wonderfully strong women should appeal to all. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Yearling
- ISBN-10: 0440229367
- Look Inside available
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 14,690
Reading Level: 5.1
Interest Level: middle-grade and up
Accelerated Reading level: 5.1 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 80081
Lexile: 1160L
Other Books
The Legend of Red Horse Cavern
After discovering the secret of an ancient Apache legend, Will and Sarah must flee from armed bandits who are pursuing them in the dark caverns of the Sacramento Mountains. The plot contains violence.
Word Count: 6886
Reading Level: 3.5
Interest Level: middle-grades and up
Accelerated Reading level: 3.5 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15802
Word Count: 6886
Reading Level: 3.5
Interest Level: middle-grades and up
Accelerated Reading level: 3.5 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15802
Rodomonte's Revenge
Brett and Tom play a virtual reality game until a computer infiltrates their minds.
Word Count: 6886
Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: tweens and middle-grades
Accelerated Reading level: 3.7 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15084
Escape from Fire Mountain
Nikki sets out to rescue two children trapped in a forest fire.
Word Count: 9,486
Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: tweens and middle-grades
Accelerated Reading level: 4.1 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 13000
Lexile: 630L
The Rock Jockeys (Devil's Wall)Three young climbers are trapped on a mountain.
Word Count: 7197
Reading Level: 3.8
Interest Level: tweens and middle-grades
Accelerated Reading level: 3.8 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15084
Hook 'Em Snotty!
Two girls must help each other survive at their grandfather's ranch.
Word Count: 7213
Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: tweens and middle-grades
Accelerated Reading level: 3.7 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15081
Danger on Midnight River
Slow learner Daniel Martin escapes peer teasing by spending most of his time outdoors, and when a van crash plunges him and a gang of bullies in the river, Daniel must choose between saving himself and risking his life to save the others.
Word Count: 8,013
Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reading level: 3.7 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 15079
The Gorgon Slayer
Warren Trumbull lives in a world of evil warlocks and eight-foot cyclops. He'll need all his courage and a surprising secret weapon to win his wildest battle ever.
Captive!
Project - A Perfect World (Perfect Danger)
The Treasure of El Patron (Treasure Ship)
Skydive!
The Seventh Crystal
The Creature of Black Water Lake
Time Benders
The Boy Who Owned the School
Most of the action of this farcical novel takes place at the high school where Jacob Freisten's primary goal is to remain unnoticed. All too often this classic loser finds himself cornered by some bully. When he is not being stuffed inside a locker or a trash can, Jacob suffers other forms of humiliation that are relayed in a string of colorful anecdotes. While running laps around the gym, he accidentally tramples Maria Tresser, the most beautiful girl in the school. Cupid's arrow strikes, and Jacob's seemingly hopeless infatuation leads to one disaster after another; but he finally wins a date with the girl of his dreams. Although Paulsen's pace may leave some readers breathless, most will relish the sharp wit and incredible energy of this ironic glimpse of high school life and young romance.
Harris and Me **STARRED REVIEW** Booklist
A young city boy is sent to spend the summer on his aunt and uncle's farm. Though he has lived many places over the years, he has never experienced anything like farm life . . . and he has never metanyonelike Harris, his daredevil of a cousin. If the two of them can survive wrestling three-hundred-pound pigs and mouse-hunting with toothless old Louie's fire-spitting pet lynx--which, unlike his master, hasplentyof teeth--they just might make it through the summer!
Word Count: 33,240Reading Level: 5.7
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 5.7 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 5332
The Schernoff Discoveries
The Glass Cafe
Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day
The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech
Word Count: 13,812
Reading Level: 4.6
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 4.6 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 107359Lawn Boy
Word Count: 14,323
Reading Level: 4.3
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 4.3 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 115808
Culpepper Adventures
* The Case of the Dirty Bird (AR 3.8 - 1 pt)
* Culpepper's Cannon
* Dunc Gets Tweaked
* Dunc's Halloween
* Dunc Breaks the Record
* Dunc and the Flaming Ghost
* Amos Gets Famous
* Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top
* Dunc's Dump
* Dunc and the Scam Artists
* Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos
* Dunc's Undercover Christmas
* Wild Culpepper Cruise
* Dunc and the Haunted Castle
* Cowpokes and Desperadoes
* Prince Amos
* Coach Amos
* Amos and the Alien
* Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher
* Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom
* Amos's Killer Concert Caper
* Amos Gets Married
* Amos Goes Bananas
* Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs
* Amos and the Vampire
* Amos and the Chameleon Caper
* Amos Binder, Secret Agent
* Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice
* Super Amos
Other novels
* The Special War (1966)
* Some Birds Don't Fly (1968)
* The Death Specialists (1976)
* The Implosion Effect (1976)
* C. B. Jockey (1977) (alternate title of The C.B. Radio Caper?)
* The Golden Stick (1977)
* Tiltawhirl John (1977) (also known as Tasting the Thunder in the UK)
* The C. B. Radio Caper (1977)
The Foxman
* Winterkill (1977)
* The Curse of the Cobra (1977)
* The Green Recruit (1978)
* The Spitball Gang (1980)
* Compkill (1981)
* The Sweeper (1981)
* Clutterkill (1982)
* Dancing Carl (1983)
* Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights (1983)
Tracker
Word Count: 16,108
Reading Level: 5.3
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.3 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 647
Dogsong
Word Count: 34,815
Reading Level: 5.2
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.2 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 360
Sentries
Word Count: 33,273
Reading Level: 5.4
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 5.4 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 27922
The Crossing (1987)
Word Count: 21,935
Reading Level: 5.8
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.8 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 11706
The Island
Word Count: 53,791
Reading Level: 5.7
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.7 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 5273
Night Rituals
The Voyage of the Frog
The Winter Room
Canyons
Word Count: 30,900
Reading Level: 5.5
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 6033
Kill Fee
The Night the White Deer Died
Word Count: 20,249
Reading Level: 5.7
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 5.7 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 32511
The Monument Word Count: 23,003
Reading Level: 4.9
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 4.9 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 6933
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
The Haymeadow
Word Count: 36,952
Reading Level: 5.4
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.4 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 7044
A Christmas Sonata
Dogteam
Description: On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end.
Reading Information:
Word Count: 469
Reading Level: 3.2
Interest Level: K-3
Accelerated Reading level: 3.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 61739
Lexile: AD960L
Sisters / Hermanas
The Car
Word Count: 38,546
Reading Level: 4.8
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 10290
The Tent
The Rifle
Word Count: 16,877
Reading Level: 6.8
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 6.8 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 14483The Transall Saga
Word Count: 53,879
Reading Level: 4.3
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 4.3 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 20142(Pam didn't like this one--at all. But boys love it.)
Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Canoe Days
The Beet Fields
The White Fox Chronicles
The Time Hackers
Word Count: 19,787
Reading Level: 5.2
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reading level: 5.2 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 85879
The Legend of Bass Reeves
Word Count: 35,380
Reading Level: 5.8
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.8 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 107902
Mudshark
Word Count: 12,166
Reading Level: 6.3
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reading level: 6.3 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 130156
Notes from the Dog
Word Count: 25,789
Reading Level: 4.7
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 4.7 / points: 4.0 / quiz: 131462
Lawn Boy Returns
Word Count: 16,054
Reading Level: 5.6
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 137661
Masters of Disaster
* Liar, Liar (March 8, 2011)
Woodsong
Word Count: 30,485
Reading Level: 5.6
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 5.0 / quiz: 6950
* Eastern Sun, Winter Moon
* A Guide for Using Hatchet in the Classroom
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Father Water, Mother Woods
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers
Word Count: 15,107
Reading Level: 6
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reading level: 6 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 14482
My Life in Dog Years
Word Count: 21,219
Reading Level: 5.6
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 18778
Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir of Men and Motorcycles
Guts
The author--a three-time Newbery Honor winner--relates special memories and incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson. Reprint. From the Hardcover edition.
How Angel Petersen Got His Name
Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
Murphy series
We haven't found out much about this series. In fact it took a while to even track down the descriptions of the books.
Some are available for pennies. Others for over a hundred dollars.
Some are available for pennies. Others for over a hundred dollars.
Murphy
Al Murphy is the sheriff of Chincerville--the only person standing in the way of chaos. Then a girl is found raped and murdered, and the killer continues to strike, piling death upon death. But in Murphy's town nobody gets away with murder!
Murphy's Gold
Al Murphy, sheriff of Cinoherville, Colorado, searches for Wangsu, a missing Chinese man, and discovers the case involves a secret gold mine
Murphy's Herd
Al Murphy and Midge's plans to homestead go awry when an incident occurs that escalates into a bloody feud.
Murphy's WarWhen the lawless inhabitants of Fletcher, Wyoming, lynch a powerful Texan's son, Sheriff Al Murphy takes on the power-hungry feed store owner and his rowdy hired hands
Co-authored by Brian Burks
Murphy's Stand
Grieving over the death of his beloved Midge, Al Murphy, former sheriff of Cincherville, gets a new lease on life when his investigation into murder and intrigue involving a lucrative government contract leads to a struggle for survival.
Murphy's Ambush
In New Mexico, retired sheriff Al Murphy pins on his badge again after a rancher and his family are murdered by a band of Apaches. By the author of Murphy's Stand.
Murphy's Trail
Sheriff Al Murphy rushes to the aid of his friend Risa when her husband and sons disappear while on their way to report that cattleman Ben King has murdered two Mexican goatherders, but he finds that going up against King is no easy task until he gets help from unlikely allies.
Non-Fiction
Many of these books have fallen into relative obscurity and will be hard to track down. Some can be had for a penny, others for over a hundred dollars.
* The Grass-Eaters: Real Animals (1976)
* The Small Ones (1976)
* Hitting, Pitching, and Running (1976)
* Martin Luther King: The Man Who Climbed the Mountain (1976)
* Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring (1976)
* Careers in an Airport (1977)
* Tackling, Running, and Kicking (1977)
* Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging (1977)
* Farm: A History And Celebration of the American Farmer (1977)
* Running, Jumping, and Throwing (1978)
* Successful Home Repair: When Not to Call the Contractor (1978)
* Forehanding and Backhanding (1978)
* Hiking and Backpacking (1978)
* Downhill, Hotdogging and Cross-Country (1979)
* Facing Off, Checking and Goaltending (1979)
* Launching, Floating High and Landing (1979)
* Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes (1979)
* Track, Enduro and Motocross (1979)
* Canoeing, Kayacking, and Rafting (1979)
* Going Very Fast in a Circle (1979)
* Athletics: Focus On Sport (1980) currently unavailable
* Ice Hockey: Focus On Sport (1980)
* Motor Cycling: Focus On Sport (1980)
* Motor Racing: Focus On Sport (1980)
* Skiing: Focus On Sport (1980)
* Tennis: Focus On Sport (1980)
* T.V. and Movie Animals (1980) (with Art Browne, Jr) currently unavailable
* Money Saving Home Repair Guide: Successful Home Improvement Series (1981)
* Sailing: From Jibs to Jibing (1981)
* Beat the System: A Survival Guide (1982)
* The Madonna Stories (1988)
See our post on the 2 new Gary Paulsen books that are coming out in 2011