Hatchet

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Summary: 12 from Princeton North Carolina
Review: This story is a story about a 13year old boy named Brian. His mom and dad have just started a devorce. Now he is on his way to Canada to meet his dad. Before leaving his mom gives him a hatchet. On the plane the pilot has not said a thing. But, a few minutes later things start to change. The pilot soon says to Brian if he wanted to try to steer the plane. Brian was a little nervous. But, he did it. He kept it even with the horizon. Soon the pilot started to hurt in his left arm. He had really bad pains. Soon the pilot called someone on the radio.
Then, Brian knew what was going on. The pilot was having a heart-attack. The pilot died and Brian was left alone. He trys to call for helpbut it was to hard yo hear. The boy then stares to think majorly. He knows he is just going to die. Sooner or later the plane's engine dies. Here comes the crash!! CRASH!!! The plane lands. The pilot is dead,but Brian is alive. Now he needs food!!

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Summary: 12 from Brogden North Carolina
Review: This ia a story of a boy whos name Is Brian,He is 13 years old.It is the summer time and he is going to see his father in,Canada.He lives in New York with his mom.Befor the plane takes off Brian's mom gives him a gift it was a hachet.His parents are devorced.Brian says his mom is the cause of the devorce.He saw her kissing another man,and he said it was not his dad.When his mom gives him the hachet he thinks it is a childish gift.The plane piolt has a hardattack and dies.13 year old Brian is left-alone in the plane.He knows how to fly just a little bit,b/c the piolt shows Brian how to fly it.That is my summry.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Your're alone, scared and trapped in the Canadian wilderness, no-one to help you, all you've got are clothes and a Hatchet. Would you commit suicide, or would you fight for survival?
This is what Brian, a 13 year-old boy has to do to live, and he is trapped, alone and hungry...
"Hatchet" is a fantastic read for all ages, a book that makes YOU want to live too.

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Summary: Some unlikely parts
Review: A Review by Kevin

One evening, Brian Robinson was on a small, 2 person aircraft on it's way to Canada from New York, when all of a sudden the pilot has a heart attack and dies with 13 year old Brian all along over Canadian Wilderness. Brian crash lands the plane in an "L" shaped lake. Will Brian be rescued or will he be out there for a lot longer than first thought? Either way the story goes on in, "Brian's Winter" and, "The River".

I like how this book shows how complete ignorance can spawn into in depth knowledge of how to survive with only small tools such as the hatchet that Brian has through this series. I thought that this book was realistic as far as how he survived but some of the Problems he faced were not, such as a 40 or so year old pilot having a heart attack, and a tornado in the Canadian Wilderness. I believe that although this book had some unlikely parts, that it all in all was a realistic novel and reading it might be able to help someone if they were ever in that sort of a situation.

I would recommend this book to people who like realistic adventure novels, although it had some unrealistic parts to it. It is an addictive story and not hard to follow, it keeps you in the book and ready to read more.

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Summary: 20 Pages Long
Review: Hatchet is your average survival story: nothing special there. It is low in its genre. I think that if Paulsen would actually write the story, and not the way every lousy rock looks, it would be about twenty pages and an interesting read. However, I constantly had to remind myself, "this is for school, this is for school..." otherwise I may never have made it through. Simply said, this book is no keeper, it is a dragging, overly-descriptive torture of a book.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
Bryan's is 13, and his parents are divorced. Bran is going to see his father for the summer vacation. When he is going, the pilot has a heart attack, and wrecks the plane. He wrecks right by the sure of an Island. Bryan stays at the Island for some time. He didn't have any clues of what he was doing, and he still survived. Bryan has a few hard times like a thunderstorm or getting sprayed by a skunk. Bryan is very brave in the book.
Hatchet really is a good book. It comes out and tells you some small tips on how to survive by water with a wrecked plane right at the sure. This book is funny and all that. This really is a true package. There is no other book better than this. Reading this book is worth it.
Please get this book. You have to. It lets you use foreshadowing. The River by Gary Paulsen is the sequel of hatchet. Get this book to find out what will happen.
By: Jesse

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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: Brian, the main character, is a growing, and maturing character as he is lost in the woods in this excellent book, that draws you into it and wont let you put it down the whole time, by Gary Paulsen.
This book starts off with Brian flying in a plane to go see his father in Canada. Then the pilot has a heart attack and Brian is stuck with flying the plane as far as he can. And once he runs out of gas and finds a lake, he lands the plane in the lake crashing the plane and the plane sinks. Brian got out of the plane but he kept thinking of the dead pilot strapped in the plane. After a long time of sitting there in self pity and blaming this all on 'The Secret,' he realizes that he has nothing accept his hatchet that was given to him by his mother, and his tattered clothes. After realizing that he saw a rock face and spotted a place he could call a shelter. It was a nice size place, about 8' by 11'. And when he gets a visit in the middle of the night from a porcupine he found out the hard way that he could make sparks with his hatchet. When he got up in the morning and thought about what had happened he tried to make a fire. After about an hour or two he finally did it after many attempts. He found that he could make weapons out of tree branches and sharpen them with his hatchet to kill the 'fool birds' and fish and cook them on the fire. Everything
was going great for Brian; accept the fact that he is lost in the woods, until the 'insane day' comes. On this day a moose attacked him twice and a tornado came and attacked his
shelter. All of his weapons were gone and all of the food he saved up was gone also. The tornado did one good thing, lifted the plane's tail out of the water. Brian decided to go into the plane and get the survival kit out of the plane and he would be set for a wile longer.
To find out what's in the plane and what ever happens to Brian check out Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. You will not be able to put it down until the very end.

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Summary: Some Unlikely Parts
Review: One evening, Brian Robinson was on a small, 2 person aircraft on it's way to Canada from New York, when all of a sudden the pilot has a heart attack and dies with 13 year old Brian all along over Canadian Wilderness. Brian crash lands the plane in an 'L' shaped lake. Will Brian be rescued or will he be out there for a lot longer than first thought? Either way the story goes on in, 'Brian's Winter' and, 'The River'.

I like how this book shows how complete ignorance can spawn into in depth knowledge of how to survive with only small tools such as the hatchet that Brian has through this series. I thought that this book was realistic as far as how he survived but some of the Problems he faced were not, such as a 40 or so year old pilot having a heart attack, and a tornado in the Canadian Wilderness. I believe that although this book had some unlikely parts, that it all in all was a realistic novel and reading it might be able to help someone if they were ever in that sort of a situation.

I would recommend this book to people who like realistic adventure novels, although it had some unrealistic parts to it. It is an addictive story and not hard to follow, it keeps you in the book and ready to read more.

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Summary: "My View on the Noel Hatchet!"
Review: On my opinion, and mind only, I think the novel Hatchet is a fantastic and exciting book. Thoughtout this book I could tell how the author used descriptive language which then created imagery in my mind. This novel is mainly about a young 13 year old boy, Brian Robeson, who is travelling to his father's with a timid pilot. Soon, the pilot gets sick and has a massive heart attack. Brian panics tremendously and using the knowledge that the pilot has given him Brian tries to land the plane in a lake. With great luck the plane cashed in a L shaped lake leaving Brian in the Canadian Wilderness all by himself. I would diffenitly have to rate this book with 5 stars and I would like to take this time to say congradulations to the intelligent author, Gary Paulson, who made my day every chapter of the novel. It is a magnificent novel, perhaps the best one I have ever read in my entire life. I would love to create a wonderful book like Hatchet and have the knowledge to do so. It was just a reamarkable novel!!

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: The book Hatchet is about a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson. Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his father. During the flight up to Canada Brian's pilot has a heart attack. Brian is the only other person on the plane and has to figure out a way to land the plane. Brian crashes the plane in the Canadian woods and learnes how to survive in the wilderness by himself.
I think that this was a good book. I liked that he was all alone and figured out everything by himself and was able to stay alive. I don't think that the author did anything wrong with this book.