TY - BOOK AU - Paulsen, Gary, AU - Kendel,Anna AU - Kendel,Varvara TI - Gone to the woods: a true story of growing up in the wild SN - 9781529047721 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2021///] CY - London : PB - Macmillan Children's Books KW - Paulsen, Gary KW - Wilderness survival KW - Juvenile literature KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - The farm -- The river -- The ship -- Thirteen -- Soldier N2 - At the age of five Gary Paulsen escaped from a shocking Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead, finding a powerful respect for nature that would stay with him throughout his life. At the age of thirteen a librarian handed him his first book, and there he found a lasting love of reading. As a teenager he desperately enlisted in the Army, and there amazingly discovered his true calling as a storyteller. A moving and enthralling story of Gary Paulsen's childhood, of grit and growing up ER -