Gary Paulsen
Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.72 | 286614 Users | 13623 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Hatchet |
| ISBN: | 0689840926 (ISBN13: 9780689840920) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Brian's Saga #1 |
| Characters: | Brian Robeson |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (1988), Young Hoosier Book Award for 6-8 (1991), Buckeye Children's Book Award for 6-8 (1991), Massachusetts Children's Book Award (1995), Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (1990) Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (1989), Golden Archer Award (1989), Soaring Eagle Book Award (1997), Iowa Teen Award (1990), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High (1990), Minnesota Book Award (1988), William Allen White Children's Book Award (1990), Bluestem Book Award Nominee (2016), Virginia Reader's Choice for Middle (1989), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for YA (1990) |
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Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly desolate and alone. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous?
Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage--an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. Most of all, Brian leaves behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive.
A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.
Point Appertaining To Books Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)
| Title | : | Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1) |
| Author | : | Gary Paulsen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2000 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers: Richard Jackson Books (first published November 1st 1986) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Adventure. Classics. Survival. Childrens |
Rating Appertaining To Books Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)
Ratings: 3.72 From 286614 Users | 13623 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)
Some books imprint themselves on your mind and stay with you. You can remember vividly where you were when you first read them. Hatchet is one of those books for me. I remember being in Mrs. Alisons sixth grade class, and this book was raging though the male half of my class like a wildfire. Even boys who usually hated reading couldnt put it down. Obviously, as the classs self-proclaimed queen of the bookworms, I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. So, when a copy finally made it back to3.5 StarsJust imagine........you're 13 years old......you're riding shotgun in a Cessna......your pilot is suddenly unconscious. What do you do?After the crash, young Brian Robeson has a big problem, much bigger than his secret. In shock, without food or water and alone in the north woods of Canada, he had only his wits and a hatchet as survival tools.Brian comes face-to-face with some pretty scary and dangerous creatures of the night.....and day....that made for a great learning experience for
My first foray into childhood favorites for one unlikely-to-succeed purpose: converting my brother from books about Harry Potter to books about anything else, in the world. Any suggestions?When I first read Hatchet, at around ten or twelve, I devoured it time and time again. The idea of learning wilderness survival with nothing but a hatchet and my own wits prickled the pores of my baby-smooth chest with visions of man-hair, tufts and tufts of it, more than I knew what to do with, for after
Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1), Gary PaulsenHatchet is a 1986 young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Brian's Saga series. Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels from Hampton, New York, to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian
This is a great book. It's a good adventure story for early teens. I think it should have won the Newberry Medal for 1988 and so it goes. Brian has to survive in the Canadian Woods on his own for a summer. He learns to make fire, shelter and hunt for fish and birds. There is also a divorce theme going on as Brian's parents have recently split. This is your typical survival tale. Brian does face some harsh environments and he learns to be tough physically and more importantly - mentally. He
I have to be honest. At first I was having a serious 'really?' moment as I started listening. The 'really?' was because this is a three-time Newberry Award winner, and I thought the prose was way too repetitive. The same word would be repeated three times. The same sentences twice. I was steeling myself to keep listening and hope it got better. It did. By the end of this novel, I totally realized why it is a Newberry Award winner.Hatchet is a story of survival. The protagonist is a
(fwiw this is a book I read my kids aged 6-10)I'd give this book 3.5 stars if I could. Basically the stuff which makes it a classic and is indeed very good is the adventure/survival stuff (he is the sole survivor of a plane crash deep in the woods and has nothing but a hatchet). Both the details of what he is doing to survive, and the psychological changes he goes through in his attempt to survive are believable, interesting, and illuminating.There is a second thread in the book which is him
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