Woods Runner (14 page)

Gary Paulsen is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, including three Newbery Honor books:
The Winter Room, Hatchet
, and
Dogsong
. His novel
The Haymeadow
received the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award. Among his Random House books are
Notes from the Dog; Mudshark; Lawn Boy; The Legend of Bass Reeves; The Amazing Life of Birds; The Time Hackers; Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day; The Quilt
(a companion to
Alida’s Song
and
The Cookcamp
);
The Glass Café; How Angel Peterson Got His Name; Guts: The True Stories Behind
Hatchet
and the Brian Books; The Beet Fields; Soldier’s Heart; Brian’s Return, Brian’s Winter
, and
Brian’s Hunt
(companions to
Hatchet
);
Father Water, Mother Woods;
and five books about Francis Tucket’s adventures in the Old West. Gary Paulsen has also published fiction and nonfiction for adults, as well as picture books illustrated by his wife, the painter Ruth Wright Paulsen. Their most recent book is
Canoe Days
. The Paulsens live in Alaska, in New Mexico, and on the Pacific Ocean.

You can visit the author at
www.garypaulsen.com
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Gary Paulsen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Paulsen, Gary.
 Woods runner / Gary Paulsen. — 1st ed.
    p. cm.
 Summary: From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel,
who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his
parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after
slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
 eISBN: 978-0-375-89634-7
[1. Kidnapping—Fiction. 2. Frontier and pioneer life—Pennsylvania—Fiction.
3. Soldiers—Fiction. 4. Espionage—Fiction. 5. Indians of North America—
Pennsylvania—Fiction. 6. Pennsylvania—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—
Fiction. 7. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Fiction.]
I. Title.
 PZ7.P2843Woo 2010     [Fic]—dc22    2009027397

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