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The Schernoff Discoveries

Gary Paulsen

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Hilarious Harry 3 out of 5 stars.
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The Schernoff Discoveries is a quick moving, funny book about friendship. The story takes place in Minnesota, in two small towns called Hilard and Peat roughly 10 years ago. Gary tells the story about different hilarious challenges two good friends faced at fourteen years of age and what became of them.
I like The Schernoff Discoveries because it is about what happens in school and includes important issues like friendship and dealing with peer pressure. The main characters are Harold and Gary. They are two kids from different sides of the tracks. Harold is smart and daring; Gary is cautious and not so smart. One good example of Harold being daring and Gary being cautious, Harold decided that they needed to go skiing, because girls liked skiers. Harold read in a book on how, even though Gary was against this idea, he went along anyways. They should have listened to Gary. They enjoy school and like girls a lot. They figured out a way to change their schedules so that they would be the only boys in the Home Economics classroom full of girls. This worked for them because they could get to know the girls without competition or insults from other boys. On the downside, the boys were picked on for being the only boys in the room, especially by the football team. With the help of the Home Economics class, the girls and Harold were able to get even with the football team. They enjoy each other's friendship and play jokes on each other, even though others around them make fun of them calling them "geeks" and "nerds".
The story is very funny because during the story Gary talks about things he and Harold have done in the past. Gary is the one telling the story because Harold is the one who is always coming up with ideas for new ways to make money. Harold decided one day that they needed a car. It didn't matter that they weren't old enough to drive. Harold discovered a way for them to make a lot of money at a golf course, which they later used the money to buy the perfect car for a fourteen year old. All through the story Harold helps Gary with bullies and school by playing tricks on the bullies. Gary looks up to Harold because he is smarter than Gary. Gary comments, "Harold is good at everything, except fishing." Harold would try anything he had never tried before, but he would visit the library first. He had never tried fishing and decided he wanted to. He figured that Gary could teach him. Harold came equipped for a major fishing tournament; Gary came with string, hook and worms. This turned into a learning experience; Harold was able to hook everything, except a fish.
I would recommend this book to 6th and 7th graders because it is more at their reading level. Kids hate reading long books, so they will enjoy this quick paced, funny, short book.
This book showed how two friends could overcome bullying and has fun doing it. I like the way the story is being told in the present and the past. This book helps teenagers to relate with the characters. The things that Harold and Gary had to deal with are what so many kids these days deal with. This story shows kids that, you have to keep your head up and not give into peer pressure. Don't let anyone bully you, but most of all don't be a bully to anyone else. Most of all, that a true friend is a good friend.

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Harold Schernoff, 14-year-old science whiz and social nerd, has a theory for every problem, from dating, to bullies, to making money, to sports, to how to buy a car when you're underage. When he and his buddy team up to put his theories to the test, nothing goes according to plan. A ski lesson becomes: Mass x Acceleration x Slope of hill = eeeAAGGHHH. As for first dates, only Harold could mastermind such disaster. Only Harold could go fishing and get caught by the fish. And only Gary Paulsen could write such a wonderfully funny story of friendship.

DUNC'S UNDERCOVER CHRISTMAS (Culpepper Adventures)

Gary Paulsen

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It's Christmastime! And Dunc, Amos, and Amos's cousin, T.J., hit the mall for some serious shopping. But when the seasonal magic is threatened by some disappearing presents and Santa Claus himself is a prime suspect, the boys put their celebration on hold and go undercover in the perfect Christmas disguises. Can the sleuthing trio protect Santa's threatened reputation and catch the impostor before he strikes again?

DUNC AND AMOS MEET THE SLASHER (Culpepper Adventures)

Gary Paulsen

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Dunc worries that Amos has gone too far when the latter dons a leather jacket, slicks back his hair, and adopts a nickname, in order to uncover a stolen stereo racket led by the tough new kid in school.

DUNC'S DOLL (Culpepper Adventure, No 2)

Gary Paulsen

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In hot pursuit of a band of doll thieves, Dunc Culpepper and his accident-prone sidekick Amos do some serious snooping when a doll that once belonged to Charles Dickens is stolen from a doll exhibition at a local mall.

DUNC AND AMOS HIT THE BIG TOP (Culpepper Adventures, No 9)

Gary Paulsen

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Eager to impress Melissa, the girl of his dreams, Amos Binder decides to perform on the trapeze at the visiting circus, despite Dunc Culpeppers efforts to talk him out of it.

The Treasure of El Patron (Paulsen, Gary. Gary Paulsen World of Adventure.)

Gary Paulsen

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Great Book!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I think this book is great because it was adventurous,interesting and fun to read!

A Super Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Enjoyed Tag's adventure in finding the treasure...kept me on the edge of my seat!

The Treasure of El Patron 4 out of 5 stars.
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I always enjoy a Gary Paulsen book when I sit down with it. I can count on this author for an exciting tale told in a lively fashion, and characters I can really believe in. Tag and Cowboy (the heroes of this story) believe in treasures and in themselves.

I liked the way that Tag's dad found the treasure and left clues for Tag to find it as well. If you like fun, fast-paced adventure, this is a book you'll like a lot.

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Vowing to find the sunken ship of treasure that claimed his father's life, Tag Jones is unperturbed by rumors that the ship is haunted, but when he and his friend are asked to retrieve some sunken parcels, they find themselves in dangerous water.

The Haymeadow

Gary Paulsen

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The Haymeadow 5 out of 5 stars.
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Gary is a fifteen year old boy growing up on s ranch. He is a tall thin young man with thick lomg black hair.It is the begining of spring when a friend named Tink and also a worker of his father grows ill from cancer,just before the sheep drive.Whie his father is taking care of Tink he has to do the drive, he will be alone in the Haymeadow for the next 3 months.The Theme is a young man growing up and begining to finally doing man things.The Haymeadow is up in the moutains were his family once use to own that area.
I love and adore storys that have to do with nature and the willderness.That is why i loved this story.

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Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.

John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things can happen to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.

HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME Large Print

Gary Paulsen

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Exciting book of extreme sports adventures by daring, lifelong adventurer, Gary Paulsen

La tortiller¡a

Gary Paulsen

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The Spanish-language edition of The Tortilla Factory.

The Time Hackers

Gary Paulsen

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Mediocre story is not the worst of its problems 1 out of 5 stars.
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Gary Paulsen has churned out an unoriginal tale peopled with cardboard characters in his novel Time Hackers. Which is unfortunate from this skilled and award-winning author, but not uncommon in this category of fiction. However, if that were the only problem, I'd give this book 2, possibly 3 stars, as a quick, harmless bit of fluff for kids.

Unfortunately, while this book is fluff, it isn't harmless. I'm no prude or fundamentalist. In fact, I consider myself to be a classical liberal, and I've spent 42 years reading both widely and deeply within the realm of English language literature, including my studies in grad school. Not that this fact means anything, other than I'm not some small-minded provincial, who doesn't understand that literature (at its best) is a look at the human condition.

And yet, it means something that I would even need to make such a dislaimer for what I'm about to say, and therein, perhaps, lies part of the problem.

I make a habit of reading the books my kids read. It doesn't take much time or effort (even one of the Harry Potter tomes is only a matter of a few hours) and it keeps me in touch, opening the door to many hours of enjoyable conversation with my children about an artform that is dear to my heart. Thus, when my daughter brought this book home, I picked it up and breezed through it.

After which I decided my daughter didn't need to be--in fact shouldn't be--subjected to a story in which the driving force behind one of the two main characters is his desire to see the famous women of history naked. Had this been something in passing, a quick gag, that would have been one thing. But this subplot literally comes up every few pages; it is, in fact, the very substance of the character in question.

I am well aware that the YA (or teen) category of fiction has long since mainstreamed sex as an explorable topic--but do we really want to sexualize elementary school students? Besides, this isn't even a positive sexual message. The character doesn't see these women as anything other than objects, their places in history notwithstanding.

Perhaps Paulsen thinks this character merely refelcts reality. And to some degree he's probably correct. But is this really the place for that sort of reflection? Does it matter that my daughter (and many other people's daughters) might in some small way come to think of themselves as mere sex objects? Sexuality is wonderful, but it should not be the way girls--or boys, for that matter--judge their self worth.

Indeed, I've nothing whatsoever against human sexuality. (Once again, it seems strange that I should even feel the need to make such a disclaimer, lest my commentary be dismissed offhand--is that truly where we are as a society?) But there is a time and a place for everything. And what is essentially a chapter book aimed at elementary school kids is not the place for misogyny played for laughs.

That's one dad's opinion, anyway.

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You ever open your locker and find that some joker has left something really weird inside?

Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body.

Thirty seconds later it disappears.

It’s not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then vanished.

Something’s going on.

Somebody has decided to make Dorso and his buddy Frank the target of some strange techno-practical jokes. The ultimate gamesters have hacked into the time line, and things from the past are appearing in the present. Soon, the jokes aren’t funny anymore—they’re dangerous. Dorso and Frank have got to beat the time hackers at their own game by breaking the code, before they get lost in the past themselves.


From the Hardcover edition.