Brian's Return

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Summary: Brian Returns Again
Review: Brian's Return is a great book. Kids will really enjoy it.

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Summary: A very good and Descriptive Book
Review: Brian's Return is a very good and descriptive book about a boynamed Brian Robeson. To understand this book better, you may want toread Hatchet, and The River, both by Gary Paulsen. This book is about Brian, a boy who was alone in the wilderness for over 60 days, life, and how he has changed from the wilderness. When Brian returned from the wilderness, he was confused and he couldn't fit in to the civilzed world. Brian finally figures out what he has to do. He has to return to the wilderness. This is a very good and descriptive book. I would reccomend it to people who like to read a good survival story.

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Summary: Great But Not Best
Review: Brian's Return is about a boy named Brian that in the past was stuck in the wilderness for a long time alone (if you didn't know that read Hatchet.) He diecides to go back after seeing an ex-cop, Caleb for counseling after an fight with a football jock. Before departing, he finds out the pilot can only take him so far and he'll have to canoe the rest of the way. Without telling his mom about this detail he starts preparing.
I think it's a great book for learning how to survive in the wilderness, but it's a good book for someone without a care in the world also. I didn't like the fact that there wasn't many characters in the book. The beginning is kinda boring until you get into the second chapter, but hang on to it. After that it gets better and better until the end. I wish it wouldn't have let off as if Gary Paulsen had to make a deadline. I wish he would make a followup to tell us what's next. But don't take my word for it, read it.

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Summary: Brians Return
Review: Brian's Return is about a boy who has lived in the forest for a long time. He comes back into the city to tell his mom all about his trip. He starts school to see if he likes it or not. Brian tells his mom how much he hates it and he wants to go back. She first tells him to try it again to see if he likes it. After, school he goes and hangs out with his friends. Brian and this bullie both like the same girl. Brian beats the kid up really bad. After, his mom heres what happens she hires a counselerto help him. Every day Brian goes and see's him. He tells him about the experience he has with the forest. Brian tells his mom he is going back to the forest. She ask him to stay but he said he is going. Brian and his mom both start to pack all of his stuff he will need. He gets a ride from the pilot to the forest. Every now and then he writes letters to Caleb the counsler. Brian tells him how he has been, and how he is doing. If you wnat to know more just read the book.

What I liked about this book is it deals with problems that we have right now. It relates to me because I do most of that stuff.

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Summary: Stay with the other Gary Paulsen books
Review: Brian's Return is about a boy who is trying to find the missing part of his life. But he eventually realizes that the wilderness is his life. He goes back to the woods, and he realizes that he can't live without the woods in his life. An ordinary, teenage life is to boring for him, instead he wants to experience the excitement of the outdoors.

I thought this book was bad because it wasn't exciting, had no point, had a weak story, and a bad ending. First of all, it was not exciting because it was obvious what was going to happen throughout the book if you read his prior books. Secondly, it had no real point because this book seemd as if the author just jotted down thoughts and that didn't fit together like his other great novels. Next, Brian's Return had a weak story line because the story didn't really go anywhere. The same things kept happening as they did in his other books. The book didn't really end in a good way because it seemed like Gary Paulsen was too tired to finish the story.

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Summary: Brian's Return
Review: Brian's Return is the third and final sequel to Gary Paulsen's 1988 Newbery Honor book Hatchet. In this sequel Brian is an unhappy 15 year old high school student who is having great difficulty adjusting to a normal "civilized" life after being alone in the wilderness. For almost two years he tries to fit in but he just can't seem to connect with his old friends and their seemingly trivial concerns. Through conversations with a counselor Brian realizes that he must return to the wilderness to find himself and his place in the world. This book chronicles his canoe trip back into the wild. Paulsen's desciptions of the scenery and wildlife are so vivid and realistic that readers will feel they are on the trip with Brian. If you have read Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter, you MUST read Brian's Return. Although it is a little more reflective than the other action packed books, it is still a fitting conclusion to Brian's saga. I highly recommend Brian's Return.

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Summary: This is an action packed book about the outdoors.
Review: Brian's return to the wilderness is full of action-packed adventure. Brian discovers that the wilderness is where he belongs. Gary Paulsen's writing is realistic and descriptive-it feels as if you're right beside Brian. If you enjoy the outdoors, you have to read this book!

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Summary: The third and best sequel to Hatchet
Review: Brian's Return, by Gary Paulsen, is an adventure/survival book about Brian's long-awaited return to the Canadian woods written by Paulsen, a three time Newberry Honor award winner. The story begins with Brian, a 16 year old boy trying to live a normal life. The hard part for him is, he spent 48 days in the Canadian woods after his pilot had a heart attack and it changed his perspective on life. He can't find joy in having his food put right in front of him, or talking about who was going out with whom. After beating up a football player, he sees a counselor named Caleb. Caleb listens to his beautiful descriptions, and tells Brian that the answer was to go back up into the wilderness. He creates a list and a plan for a hundred mile kayak trip to eventually visit the Smallhorns, who rescued him in Brian's Winter. Brian goes through yet another action packed wilderness experience in Brian's Return. This book would be a little hard for young kids to find the true meaning of, so ages 11 and up would be a good reccomended age. Anyone who enjoyed Hatchet and its other sequels will enjoy this book.

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Summary: Milking It For All It's Worth
Review: First of all, you should not read this book if you have not read "Hatchet," which comes earlier in the series. If you like that book enough, you should go straight on to "Brian's Winter," and if you're still interested, read "The River." This will bring you up to where "Brian's Return" begins.

I loved "Hatchet" and "Brian's Winter"-- but after that, author Gary Paulsen added two more books to the series, which he shouldn't have. I was quite disappointed, and feel that this book tainted the series: It's filled with a great deal of one-sentence (and even one-word) paragraphs--I believe that Mr. Paulsen was trying to fill up enough space to publish what qualified as another "book." You should note that this watered- down story fills 115 tiny pages--and the book went straight to paperback. I don't think that Mr. Paulsen took this book so seriously as the earlier ones.

However, there's plenty to satisfy fans of the series: For example, short portraits of how Brian reacted when he got back home and his trouble fitting back into school. Even better is an interaction between Brian and an adult who sees things his way--a fellow man of the woods.

If you're an ardent fan of the series (as I was and still am), you probably can't resist buying this book anyway. But if you're not sure, you aren't missing much by passing it up.

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Summary: Yet another great sequile to the hatchet series
Review: Gary has pulled off yet another one! Brians return is an overall great read for a rainey day. It is when brian gets saved befor the winter and is shipped back to his home town in the good old USA. Brian has adjusted to the wilderness and is not yet ready to go back to civilazation. Things happen and brian is forced to go into tharepey with a blind x-cop. The x-cop shows him the light and now brian is preparing to go back into the wilderness, but this time he's prepared. Another great book from Gary Paulson and a great book for all ages.