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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5092
EAN: 9781416939399
ISBN: 1416939393
Label: Aladdin
Manufacturer: Aladdin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: May 08, 2007
Publisher: Aladdin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Aladdin




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Product Description:

A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION

Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster, and waited for a giant bear to seal his fate with one slap of a claw. He has led a team of sled dogs toward the Alaskan Mountain Range in an Iditarod -- the grueling, 1,180-mile dogsled race -- hallucinating from lack of sleep, but he determined to finish.

Here, in vivid detail, Paulsen recounts several of the remarkable experiences that shaped his life and inspired his award-winning writing.

A School Library Journal Best Book

A Booklist Editors' Choice



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - IN TUNE WITH HIS TEAM AND THE ARCTIC
Paulsen's choice of the word, SONG--see WOODSONG and DOGSONG--goes beyond the expected audible and musical implications, for it embodies man and animals' in-touch-ness with static and living aspects of the natural world. Less a cohesive story with a clearly defined plot and anticipated character development this book reveals the author's reflective observations of his own maturation--as a musher and as a human being. With gritty honesty Paulsen chronicles the painful and often humiliating earning ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - English Teacher Loves Gary Paulsen
I have taught reading and writing to East Los Angeles - Hollenbeck Middle School - children of immigrants for the past three years. When I introduced "Woodsong" to my teens, I was worried that they would not be able to relate to a middle aged white guy in the snow. Not only do my "Americans of Mexican descent" love Paulsen but they love his dogs and other creatures he encounters: Scarhead, Hawk, Cookie, Columbia, Olaf, Obeah, the young dogs who discover fire, the doe that escapes into Paulsen's campsite, ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - an awsome book from joey in buckley washington
One big race

This is the book by the name of Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Most of the book takes place in Alaska at the Iditarod.

A lot of work

Gary Paulsen trained a lot for the Iditarod. When he's training a lot of humorous stuff happens, like when they come across a dead frozen deer. There were also a lot of weird things that happen, like a chipmunk-eating squirrel. In the Iditarod Paulsen endures freezing negative weather. There are rumors everywhere and some of them ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - an awsome book from joey in buckley washington
One big race

This is the book by the name of Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Most of the book takes place in Alaska at the Iditarod.

A lot of work

Gary Paulsen trained a lot for the Iditarod. When he's training a lot of humorous stuff happens, like when they come across a dead frozen deer. There were also a lot of weird things that happen, like a chipmunk-eating squirrel. In the Iditarod Paulsen endures freezing negative weather. There are rumors everywhere and some of them ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of Paulsens best!
Woodsong
By
Gary Paulsen

Woodsong is a story about the author's adventure in Alaska. He writes
about running dogs and racing in the Iditarod.
This story begins in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1980s. Paulsen runs the
dogs which means hitching a dog team to a sled and taking them for a
run.
One time while running the dogs, they saw a glowing light in the
woods. It seemed to be person ... Read More







 






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