Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing Up in the Wild

<p><b>From the author of the bestselling <i>Hatchet</i> comes a true story of high-stakes wilderness survival!</b><br><br>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 <i>Hatchet</i>. 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.<br><br><i>Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing Up in the Wild </i>is the entrancing true story of Gary Paulsen's childhood, of grit and growing up, and is the acclaimed author at his rawest and most real.</p>