Gary Paulsen. (2022). Northwind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

Gary Paulsen. 2022. Northwind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

Gary Paulsen, Northwind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2022.

Gary Paulsen. Northwind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2022.

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   • bioText: Gary Paulsen (1939–2021) wrote more than two hundred books for children and adults, including the father-son comedy How to Train Your Dad, and the survival adventure Northwind. Three of his novels—Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room—were Newbery Honor books. In 1997, he received the ALA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. His books have sold over 35 million copies around the world.
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This stunning New York Times Bestseller from the survival story master, set along a rugged coastline centuries ago, does for the ocean what Hatchet does for the woods, as it relates the story of a young person's battle to stay alive against the odds, where the high seas meet a coastal wilderness.
When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to "the heartbeat of the ocean . . . the pulse of the sea." With hints of Nordic mythology and an irresistible narrative pull, Northwind is Gary Paulsen at his captivating, adventuresome best.

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   • source: Kirkus Reviews, starred review
   • content: "A voyage both singular and universal, marked by sharply felt risks and rewards and deep waters beneath."
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   • content: "[A] mesmerizing modern-day epic . . . The tale of man versus nature is as old as time, but Paulsen, who died in 2021, goes beyond the genre by exploring the complex perspectives of animals . . . Narrative devices like kennings and repetitious phrasing hark back to epic sagas such as Beowulf and the Poetic Eddas: tides become moon-currents, silence becomes non-sound and memories become thought-pictures. But possibly the most compelling aspect of the work is the lesson Leif learns along his journey: 'Don't go to a place. Go to be. Just to be.'"
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   • content: "What a gem . . . This accessible, captivating adventure story is destined to become another Paulsen classic . . . An essential purchase for libraries serving middle grade and YA readers."
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     Starred review from December 6, 2021
     Inspired by the late Paulsen’s lifelong love of the sea and his own journey up the Pacific coast, this captivating saga of survival and self-discovery, his final novel, centers a steadfast and levelheaded child in an apparently Nordic archipelago landscape. After growing up on fishing boats, orphan Leif is abandoned at a fish camp; when the camp’s men become infected with cholera, its leader instructs the 12-year-old to head north to safety in a canoe. Finding himself alone with few supplies in early summer, Leif struggles to survive along shorelines and inlets that teem with bears and whales, all described with Paulsen’s characteristic attention to detail. As the solitary child travels via canoe, carving his experiences into a piece of wood and dreaming of a mother he never met, he realizes that though “all his life... had not been a safe place,” the vast world is his to explore. Spare, survival-oriented prose keeps the reader immersed in scenes difficult and wondrous, offering a glimpse of the sheer awesomeness of nature, showcasing the beauty of the sea and its inhabitants, and regaling readers with a timeless and irresistible adventure that has resilience at its heart. Ages 10–14.

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     Starred review from February 4, 2022
     

     Gr 4-6-The illustrious Paulsen, who wrote more than 200 books for children and adults, passed away October 2021. Northwind is his final novel, and what a gem it is. This accessible, captivating adventure story is destined to become another Paulsen classic: a lightly historical fiction sea story, set on the Coast of Norway, and inspired by his impressive sailing adventures in the Pacific Northwest. Leif, an orphan, is sent off north in a cedar canoe with basic survival supplies after his village comes down with cholera. With hints of Nordic mythology, the story follows Leif as he survives the sickness, learns how to catch fish, and finds blackberries while staying clear of bears. He witnesses the power and beauty of inlets, the ocean, orcas, dolphins, whales, and icebergs. The language is simple but rhythmically captivating; some paragraphs are a sentence long and some words or phrases are repeated to dig deeper into a concept. Chapters are 10-15 pages long and episodic, an important authorial choice that will draw in more than just avid readers. VERDICT An essential purchase for libraries serving middle grade and YA readers. Kids will be captivated by Leif's inner monologue as he makes life-and-death decisions and reflects on the lure of the north, and the power of the sea.-Jamie Winchell

     Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from November 1, 2021
     A solitary young traveler paddles through an archipelago of natural, often dangerous, wonders, learning as he goes. Though the metaphorical layer lies barely beneath the surface in this short novel, Paulsen's spare prose and legendary knowledge of the challenges and techniques of wilderness survival make the journey through a landscape that evokes historical Scandinavia compelling reading. Sole survivor--and that just barely--of the gruesomely depicted cholera that sweeps through his camp, 12-year-old Leif comes away with a dugout canoe, a few basic outdoor skills, and the command from a dying, respected elder to head north. Subsisting largely on blackberries and salmon, he travels a winding route through fjords and a seemingly endless string of islets and inlets where he finds both danger and delight in searching for food and shelter, literally coming face to face with bears and whales, struggling to survive a deadly tidal whirlpool, and coming to understand the importance of seeing and learning from the ways and rhythms of "this place and all places that will come to me." Calling on memories, Paulsen writes in an autobiographical afterword of his Norwegian immigrant grandmother's tales. References to Odin and whalers give the setting a timelessly folkloric feeling. Final art not seen. A voyage both singular and universal, marked by sharply felt risks and rewards and deep waters beneath. (Historical adventure. 9-13)

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     Starred review from January 1, 2022
     Grades 5-8 *Starred Review* Call this posthumously published novel The Young Man and the Sea (pace Ernest Hemingway) and you'll have a pretty good idea what this survival story is about. The hero of this maritime Hatchet is an orphan named Leif, whose life changes when a deadly plague descends upon his fishing village. To save him and another young boy, Old Carl puts the two kids into a canoe and tells Leif to paddle north to where the air is clear and clean. And so Leif does, but not before the illness finds him and his companion. Sadly, the younger boy dies, but Leif, who becomes deathly ill, recovers to continue his voyage. Paulsen once again demonstrates his extraordinary knowledge of nature and the outdoors as he creates Leif's often-dangerous journey, one that is plagued by huge bears, a whirlpool, unfriendly ocean currents, and more. As he survives various obstacles, Leif begins to feel at one with nature and an ineluctable joy, an emotion that readers will likely find in the pages of this splendid story. Beautifully written, it's classic Paulsen at his best.

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     January 1, 2022
     "Nobody knew exactly when the dark ship came and to be sure at first they could not see it at all but only understood it was there in the thick fog by the smell. There was a drifting stink of death." So begins Paulsen's posthumously published novel -- quintessentially Paulsen in many respects. The cadence of the prose is often mesmerizing as long, meandering sentences cascade into short, clipped ones, and vice versa. The plot is classic Paulsen: a young boy masters his fate by mastering the elements. (This author's mark on the wilderness survival genre is so indelible that Hatchet feels like the archetype.) Here the young boy is Leif, who, after his Norse fishing village is devastated by a plague-like sickness, finds himself in a cedar canoe heading north along the rocky coastline. One final hallmark of a Paulsen book is its ring of authenticity, that sense that the author is writing from a position of knowledge, experience, and authority. He established that credibility in his earlier memoirs, Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats and Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood (rev. 3/21), and it shows on almost every page of this novel, too. The melancholic, elegiac nature of the book, coupled with the way it distills Paulsen's tremendous strengths into a single novel, makes it a fitting swan song.

     (Copyright 2022 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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