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Delacorte Press books are
Guts: The True Stories
Behind
Hatchet
and the Brian Books, The Beet
Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer, Alida’s
Song
(a companion to
The Cookcamp
),
Soldier’s
Heart, The Transall Saga, My Life in Dog Years,
Sarny: A Life Remembered
(a companion to
Nightjohn
),
Brian’s Return
and
Brian’s Winter
(companions to
Hatchet
),
Father Water, Mother
Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North
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 New Mexico and on the Pacific Ocean.

Also by Gary Paulsen
    Alida’s Song

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

The Boy Who Owned the School

The Brian Books:
The River, Brian’s Winter
and
Brian’s Return

Canyons

The Car

The Cookcamp

The Crossing

Dogsong

Father Water, Mother Woods:

Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods

Guts: The True Stories Behind
Hatchet
and the Brian Books

Harris and Me

Hatchet

The Haymeadow

The Island

The Monument

My Life in Dog Years

Nightjohn

The Night the White Deer Died

Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers

Sarny: A Life Remembered

The Scherno f Discoveries

Soldier’s Heart

The Transall Saga

The Tucket Adventures, Books One through Five
The Voyage of the
Frog
The Winter Room

Picture books, illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen:
Canoe Days
and
Dogteam

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    Copyright © 2001 by Gary Paulsen
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Paulsen, Gary.
Caught by the sea : a life in boats / Gary Paulsen.
p. cm.
    1. Paulsen, Gary—Journeys—Juvenile literature. 2. Authors, American— 20th century—Biography—Juvenile literature.
3. Boats and boating— Juvenile literature. 4. Ocean travel—Juvenile literature.
 [1. Paulsen, Gary. 2. Authors, American. 3. Sailing. 4. Boats and boating.]
I. Title. PS3566.A834 Z’.5403—dc21 [B]
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    October 2001
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