ELA

Today in ELA we learned all about Gary Paulsen.

Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939. Gary was born in Minneapolis. Gary paulsen is one of Americas most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen devoleped a passion for reading at an early age. Once the librarian gave him a book and a library card he was hooked he went to his basement and read book after book he wouldn’t stop reading .

When he was 14 years old he ran away from home and travelled with a carnival. And through Garys life before he started writing books he worked as being an engineer, a construction worker, a ranch hand, a truck driver, and a sailor and 2 rounds of the 1,180-mile Alaskan dog sled race. Then after all those jobs threw his school years he liked to read when he got older he decided to be an author and then he got right into writing books and now lots of people read books that he wrote.

By: Andrew