The book Canyons by Gary Paulsen is a book about a young boy who finds a magical skull on a camping trip. It all begins when Brannon goes on a camping trip with his mother and her new boyfriend. Brannon is not having a good time and does not want to talk to his mom’s new boyfriend or his mom. Later that day when he is trying to get comfortable before going to bed, he feels something strange poking up under his sleeping bag. So he gets up it and pulls it out of the ground, he realizes it’s a skull. But not just a normal skull, this is a human skull with a bullet hole in its forehead. Brannon hides the skull and brings it home with him not knowing this skull history or how this skull would change his life forever. The next day at school he shows