Gary Paulsen

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

1986

Brian Robeson tiene trece años y una hacha, nada más. La avioneta en la que viajaba tuvo un accidente y se estrelló. Ahora él, solo, deberá afrontar los peligros que lo acechan y conseguir sobrevivir. Superará una prueba tan dura como ésta?

Dancing Carl

Gary Paulsen

1983

Dancing Carl, Gary Paulsen's first novel, was a ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Notable Children's Trade Book for the Language Arts. In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch. It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carl's dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl's dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.