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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) |
Gary Paulsen
Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.72 | 286614 Users | 13623 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1) |
| Author | : | Gary Paulsen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 |
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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.Rating Based On Books Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)
Ratings: 3.72 From 286614 Users | 13623 ReviewsAppraise Based On Books Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)
Friggin' awesome. My 3rd grade teacher read this book aloud to my class, a chapter a day, and I remember being absolutely enthralled every single day. She read it to us right before first recess, so whenever that day's chapter ended with a cliffhanger we had the whole recess to discuss what we thought was going to happen next (and act out our own renditions of the time Brian got attacked by a bear).I.love.this.book.Seriously, I read this maybe in fourth grade? It was definitly in elementary school, because I remember it was at the same time that we we doing "survival skills"* in Girl Scouts. Not that I ever wanted to be trapped by myself in the wilderness, but I spent a lot of my time in my backyard pretending to find flint with my sister, and starting imaginary fires to keep warm. In winter we dug ourselves igloos. I always went camping with my parents, so this book started a lot of
Gary Paulsen writes in only two emotions: fine and vomit-y. Someone may want to tell him that there are other ways to provoke a response in a reader than going right for the gut, so to speak. This book could have done with some fear and suspense, perhaps some gratification, depression, or joy. I do not mind a tragedy, nor do I balk at watching the man beaten down. I am a fan of Chekhov's. If your idea of suspense is mosquito bites on your nipples, meet your Stephen King.
"There were these things to do."After being ambushed by a porcupine, bulldozed by a moose, ransacked by a tornado and ceaselessly blitzkrieged by mosquitos, chances are superlative that I'd have thrown in the towel and ceded Mother Nature its victory. Not so for Brian Robeson, who taps into unprovenanced reserves of resilience in the wake of each setback. Stranded following a crash landing in a remote stretch of forest south of the Canadian border, teenaged Brian must make do with little more
I will be honest: I didn't really enjoy this book. And I even had high expectations because it's the recipient of the Newbery Honor. I had just read The Life of Pi a few weeks ago and enjoyed it immensely despite its otherwise relatively boring, dialogue-less narrative one that can be expected from a book about a shipwrecked teenage boy (albeit with a Bengal tiger for company). This children's book, Hatchet, had a similar plot: thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson was on his way to see his father in
Though the story was compelling, very compelling, compelling enough that I finished it despite the compelling urge to throw it out the window, I don't think I could ever read it again. The window, oh the shiny window, the shiny open window was very tempting. This book was so repetitious, why so repetitious, I know not why this book was so repetitious, but the repetitions made me want to pull my hair out. My brown hair, the brown hair on my head, the hair that was brown that was on my head. I did
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