Hatchet

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I really liked this book, it was really real. I gave it to my mom to read and she liked it so much that she cried!!! Anyone and everyone should read Gary Paulsen's HATCHET.

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Summary: Suspenseful...Not
Review: I had to read Hatchet in 6th grade and it was so boring. Every chapter I was waiting for something to happen. Nothing ever did. The story is very predictable. Man gets on island, man makes fire, man gets saved. This story is just like the movie "Cast Away", except instead of the man talking to a volleyball, Bryan talks to himself. What's the chance of your pilot having a heart attack, then you somehow land on a island, make fire, and survive 45 days in the wilderness? 1/1000. This book got 2 stars from me because the end played in well with all the dullness. This is like Maury, he always plays the same show more that once. But this time, Paulsen's show never got on TV. I suggest this book to old people who like action movies but not the books. I beg your pardon Gary Paulson. You are a great author. What went wrong?

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Summary: Great Read
Review: This book is about a boy named Brian Roebson who is about to see his father and he has to board a plane to get there. But, the pilot gets a heart attack and Brian is left to fly the plane solo but doesn't know how. The plane crashes in the wilderness in Canada in a L shaped lake and he is stranded in the wilderness without food and he doesn't know anything about surviving. The pilot is dead and there is nobody he can speak to get him out of there. also winter is coming up soon and has to hurry and get out of there or else he may freeze to death.

This book is beautifully made and Gary Paulsen really made readers feel what it is like to be all alone in the wilderness surviving. I definetly recommend this book.

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Summary: Ah, no.
Review: Oh, sure, Paulsen is brilliant. And in theory, this book should be, too. Paulsen does a good job of writing, but he does in the wrong way. It's far from a Swiss Family Robonson or a Robinson Crusoe. Heck, after this, you'll be yerning for Gilligan's Island! With little events and nothing happening, the book gets old...fast.

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Summary: Great Outdoors Lover Book
Review: Paulsen did a wonderful job with this book. It contains the ancient struggle of Man vs. Nature. This novel gives detailed discripions of how Brian survived. Good book.

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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: I remeber reading this book a couple years back and not really liking it. Well last weekend I decided to reread it and I loved it. It describes perfectly how Brian survives in the wilderness with just a hatchet to aid him. I am now currenlty rereading the sequal and also loving it.

If you aprecitate the wilderness this book is defineatly for you!

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Summary: Hatchet is one of the most popular books in our library!
Review: "Hatchet" has consistently been one of the most popular adventure books in our elementary school library since it was published. It is often the first book to get boys hooked on reading, however girls like it, too!

"Hatchet" is part of a great tradition of survival stories like, "My Side of the Mountain," "Island of the Blue Dolphins," "Call it Courage," "The Sign of the Beaver," "The Iceberg Hermit," "The Cay," "Incident at Hawk's Hill," and "Julie of the Wolves."

Highly recommended.

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Summary: hatchet
Review: Imagine flying to your dad's house in the woods for a summer visit. When everything seems just fine, your plane crashes. Your pilot dies on impact. There you are stranded in the wilderness. All you have is the hatchet that your mother gave you and the clothes on your back. You have to go throught a lot of hard, life threatening challengees. Brian, the boy who this happened to in the book, met death eye to eye. He had many problems he hade to face in the fight for survival. He definetely had the will to survive. If he didn't have that he would have died the first day in the wilderness. This book will keep you reading cover to cover, turning page after page, just wondering what will happen next to Brian. So do your self a favor and read this great book.

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Summary: HATCHET
Review: THIS WAS A VERY INTERESTING BOOK IT WAS VERY GOOD WITH GOOD USE OF LANGUAGE. IT DOESNT TAKE LONG TO READ WHICH IS QUITE A GOOD THING AS MOST PEOPLE AT MY AGE DONT ENJOY READING. I WOULD RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY BODY ESPECIALLY BOYS AS IT IS A BOYISH BOOK . ITIS A BOY WHO PLAYS A BIG PART IN IT. WHY NOT READ IT YOURSELF!!!

GEORGE STARK, FORTH

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Summary: Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I read this when I was 12 years old (a long time ago) and LOVED it! When you read about a boy (who appeared spoiled) who has to make it on his own--completely on his own in the middle of nowhere, it really gives you a new perspective. Especially when things happen that completely destroy everything that he worked so hard for.

This is an excellent book.