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368 pages.
Contents include: The farm -- The river -- The ship -- Thirteen -- Soldier.
Summary: If not for his six-hundred-mile journey from the busy Chicago city to a captivating Minnesotan farm aged five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book aged thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his daring teenage enlistment in the army, he might not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller. Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing Up in the Wild is the true story of Gary Paulsen's childhood, of grit and growing up. (Publisher)