Hatchet

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Summary: Great book
Review: I read this book for a young adult lit class, and I loved it. It was great to make lesson plans out of. It was full of ideas. I couldn't put it down. Loved it!

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Summary: One of the Best Books! Medford, MA July 11, 1999
Review: "Hatchet" had been one of my summer reading books a few years ago. The first time I read it, I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought it was very boring. But then I read again just this passed year and I really enjoyed it!! My point? You should always give a book or anything else a second chance before deciding on whether you like it or not. You might end up liking it the second time. I know I am 15 years old, but I still really did like it and I think anybody would like it. It is a really good survival story and I think it is a really good book to read (especially in the summertime). It is definently one of my all-time favorite books! Some other books by Gary Paulsen that are really good and that I have read are "Cayons", "The River", "Brian's Winter", and "Brian's Return". Those are some suggestions for the people who love books by Gary Paulsen.

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Summary: Great story
Review: This book is a story about survival. A young 12 yr old boy finds himself stranded in the canadian wildness after going for a flight for his birthday. The pilot dies from a sudden heart attack and the plane comes falling down. The boy calls for help but there's no answer. He has only his 'hatchet' to use for food. Somehow he survives and gets rescued later on by another pilot. I recommend this book for the 8-14 age group.

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Summary: OK
Review: Hatchet was a good book- except that it was slightly far-fetched, it lacked good dialogue, and kept on using repeating words. On the good side, it showed a great story of survival in hardship. Hope you enjoy/dislike this book!

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Summary: Simply the best survival book for children avaliable!
Review: Very well written and compelling. My favourite childrens book by a long shot. Well worth buying. Hatchet:Winter and Hatchet:the return are also equally good.

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Summary: This book is very exciting.
Review: David, Francisco and Brandon thought Hatchet was very exciting! Hatchet is full of real life situations that would happen if you had to survive.

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Summary: A Plane Crashed in the Canadian Forest!
Review: In the beginning, Brian's mother gave Brian a hatchet because he was going on a long trip to Canada to see his dad. Then on his way to Canada, the pilot had a heart attack and Brian tried to pilot the plane but it crashed. He built a shelter in a cave and had to eat berries that he thought made him choke. He got all bit up by mosquitoes. Then a tornado came and blew his whole shelter away. But, during the tornado, the end of the plane came out of the water. Brian made a raft out of wood (from the tornado) so he could get out to the plane. Then he dropped his hatchet in the water and he had to go down in the water to get it. He got his hatchet and used it to get inside the plane. When he got in the plane, he looked around the plane for the emergency packet. But while he was looking for it, he saw the pilot's head in the water. Finally he found it and used the communicator to call for help. This was the best nature book I have ever read. If you ever decide to read this book, from my experience, you will have a good time.

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Summary: Paulsen writes a great book!
Review: Hatchet, I did not want to put it down but I had to because I am reading it in school as a directed book. I could not wait to have directed so I could find out what would happen next. Brian's plane crashes on his way to his dad's house because his parents are divorced. After you read this book it will remind you of when you go camping and something goes wrong. Brian's has a big challenge he has to survive with only a hatchet. Later in the book Brian finds a survival kit which makes him have relief. About four days later Brian comes to safety and lets those days behind.

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Summary: I had to bring a flashlight into bed to finish this book!
Review: I picked this book because a boy in my 4th grade class did a book report on it and the story sounded interesting. And was it ever! Brian gets a hatchet as a gift from his mother, and when his little plane crashes in a lake in the Canadian wilderness, he finds many ways to use his new hatchet to keep himself alive. He uses his hatchet to protect himself from a porcupine that tries to attack him in the middle of the night; he also uses the hatchet to make firewood to keep himself warm at night. Brian spends 54 days in the woods, by himself. A twister turns the crashed plane so that the tail sticks out of the lake, and another plane, flying overhead, sees the tail sticking out of the water. The pilot lands his plane on the lake and when he sees Brian he realizes he's found the kid that searchers stopped looking for weeks ago. Remember this book when you go the bookstore, it's great!

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Summary: the hatchet was a very good book
Review: brian robeson was on a trip to see his father on a plane and when the pilot had a heart attack and brian had to fly the plane by himself and brian had to land the plane but the plane carsh into the lake and brian got hurt by the carsh and so brian had to live in the wildess and he had to look for his food