Hatchet

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Summary: It lasted hundreds of miles
Review: Hatchet is a very good book, and I would recommend it. Here's the first part of the story. Bryan, a kid whose parents are suddenly divorced (by his mother), before that happens he sees something, the secret his father does not know. This is what the secret is, he was biking with his friend when he sees his mother in a station wagon with a man with blond hair. While she is driving she turns over and kisses his lips. Now he is flying to his father, the pilot suddenly has a heart attack, and rams his foot inot the right rudder pedal. A few hours later Bryan has to make a crash landing right by a lake! Then he has to find food, shelter, weapons and fire with no survival pack. I won't tell you the rest because it would spoil it. I liked this book so much I listened to it twice in the car. I give it five stars.

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Summary: A look inside Hatchet
Review: I recommend this book to whoever likes survival and adventure books. Another reason is that it has great suspense and action. When the pilot had the heart attack, no one knew what was going to happen next. When the narrator said, " The pilot stopped jerking, his legs contracted up into the seat and his eyes rolled back until the whites in his eyes were showing". This part of the book gave me the feeling that time just stopped because Brian is stuck with a dead pilot and is still in the air. Brian doesn't know how to fly a plane but manages. When Brian eats a raw turtle egg that he finds in the sand, this shows his fight to survive. He is going to survive any way possible. He has to do some brave things like pulling out porcupine quills out of his leg. "He grasped one of the quills, held his breath, and jerked." That was brave because they were deep and the pain would so bad that someone could go into shock. I think that the adventure that Brian has is very well put in the book. Everything that happens to him and everything that he does is exciting in some way. So if you want to read a book that has lots of adventure and action in it, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Stranded
Review: Imagine being on a plane to visit your father thinking "In just a few minutes I'll be getting of in an airport to spend some time with my dad!" when the next thing you know, your plane has crashed and you're in the middle of the forest with no supplies except for a hatchet that your mother gave you. This is the story of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's the story of a 13 year-old boy, surviving in the wilderness on his own. It's a very descriptive book and you will find yourself drawn to it from the start. The suspense is so great, you find yourself thinking "What's going to happen? Will he be found? Will he?" You actually find yourself imagining yourself as the main character. What are you waiting for? Read the book and see what happens!

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in survival. This book would help you if you were on a plane and it crashed in the northern woods. This book taught me so much about surviving in the wilderness. It also educated me how to make a fire. "As he was rubbing the sticks together, he realized that he needed something out of metal and as he blew a fire came." Another example of what it taught me would be when he killed his first rabbit "He cooked it like he cooked his first bird he cooked it on both sides until it was crisp on both sides." In conclusion, if you are fascinated by the outdoors and you would like to know how to survive, read this book.

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Summary: A good read for any age
Review: My 9-year-old daughter was assigned this book in school and after reading it she encouraged me to do so. I thoroughly enjoyed it; a thoughtful and interesting read.

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Summary: Worst Read Ever!...
Review: ...It is the worst book that i have ever read. I recommened that you don't read this book. This book has no action in it at all, so if u like action u will hate this book. It is also very repetative, he says thing 5-10 times before he gets them one. I thought he might atually attack and kill the moose or fight the bear but he just ran away like a scared little 2 year old. This has to be the worst book ever made.
DON'T READ IT!...

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Summary: Worst Book Ever!
Review: I hated this book. It is the worst book that I have ever read. It is very repative and is just plain boring. If u like this book u can go read it over & over again for all I care, but I reccomend that u don't. U could die of bordem

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Summary: This book rocked!!!!!!!!
Review: Hatchet was brilliant. After I had started it I couldn't put it down until I had finished it. Brian's story was amazing and I felt like I was there with him. He is flying over the Canadian wilderness to the Alaskan oilfields to see his father when the pilot has a heart attack and Brian has to land the plane himself. He has to find shelter, food, fire and weapons to survive in this wilderness. He battles mosquitoes, bears and even a moose. But in the end he is saved. I really enjoyed this book, so much so I have read the two sequels, Hatchet: Winter and Hatchet, the Return and I highly recommend Hatchet: Winter to all readers that enjoyed Hatchet.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: This is the worst book I've ever read.I give it 1 star becase it was boring.I really liked it when the plane was going down.How come it could'nt have some action in it.He could at least have to fight a bear or something. Or he could have meet a friend in the woods. So my conclusion is this the worst and boring book, and I will not tell a friend.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: May 7,2002
Mrs.Holl
A-4
In the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen describes a survival situation of a young thirteen-year-old boy. Brian was going to Canada to visit his father during the summer vocation when the plane crashed in the wilderness. While in the wilderness Brian learned how to live by himself by using survival skills. The most important thing that Brian had would be his hatchet. I think that Brian didn't have a hatchet he wouldn't survive forty-four days in the wilderness.
In the wilderness Brian met several wild animals such as: moose, bears, porcupine, turtle, and skunk. All these animals at the beginning attacked Brian. The first animal that hurt Brian was a bear and then others. The moose attacked Brian hardest because this animal is not so small; he weights much and is bigger than human. The good thing what Brian got from turtle was turtle's eggs. Brain could eat those eggs and then be full, and of course it's much better than berries.
The wilderness changed Brian life forever. Now he was different. What are you impressed? Is Brian such a strong person like the others? What kind the boy can survive forty-four days without human being, without normal and regular food? Brian did he lived those days he never talk with anyone just by himself. Brian should be with his father and have a good time. But now is everything different. He is alone in the wilderness. He should be proud of himself because he learned many things how to make a fire without any matches, how to find food without any store and how to live in the woods. Could any of his teenagers survive like this how he did?
I think if I would be in this situation lost in the wilderness, I would like to have Brian with me because he is such a smart boy. So time to say my opinion for this book I'll give 4 stars because in this book were some details which I didn't like it. I don't think that in real life could happen that thirteen-year-old boy could survive by himself. Maybe author could made that boy was a little bit older about sixteen year old, maybe it would work then, but it's just my opinion maybe others think different than me.
In the novel Hatchet describes a survival situation about a young boy who survived in the wilderness without anything just a hatchet. He met many animals and now he knows more about the nature and life in the wilderness. This experience had changed how Brian thought about life. He learned that things don't always go as you expect.
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