Hatchet

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Summary: Hatchet is the best book I've read this year.
Review: Hatchet was the best book I've ever read this year.The plot is about a boy who is in a plane wreck. The plane wreck was caused by the pilot having heart attack. Brian was the intelligent person in this story in the wilderness. The book is a great adventure story, it will take you out of your bed.

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Summary: You have to read this book!
Review: 13 -year old, David Robeson goes to visit his father for the first time since his parent's divorce. But, his plane crashes. And all he has is a tattered windbreaker, the clothes on his back, and a hatchet. If you like stories that keep you on the edge of your seat, read this book. A lot of suspense stories that kids read have space aliens, monsters or ghosts but this is a real "down-to-earth" story about courage, perseverance and determination that we should all learn from.

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Summary: A very good book
Review: I think Hatchet is one of the best books I've ever read.This book is filled with suspense and exitement. Once you start reading you can't stop. This interesting book is about a 13-year old boy that tries to survive in a wilderness. He manages to survive using his Hatchet. All he has he owes to his Hatchet.

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Summary: a great book
Review: This was my first paulsen book, i couldn't put it down ! i LOVE is style - connecting his sense of adventure and his longing to be one with nature ! i've now read almost all his fictional stories for young readers and i'd advise any middle school/elementary school teachers to suggest this author to their students. it's easy reading for both boys and girls !

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Summary: A book that teaches how to survive in the woods!
Review: I really think there is no single book in the world that is similar to the book HATCET. Did you know that I feel so sorry and sympathetic for Brain because he had to stay in the Canadian woods for 54 days? That, for me, is a very long time! All this time Brian was only eating turtle eggs that he found under the sand. He also ate some fish and some raspberries. Brain met a mother bear with her two cubs and he also met the first wolf that he saw in his life. I was wondering if Brain would kill the bears and the wolves with his bow and arrow that he was making with his hatchet. Did you know that he had two best friends in the Canadian woods? They were the fires that he made with a big black stone and the hatchet. Brian cannot live without fire and hatchet! He needed fire for cooking and keeping himself warm at nights. The fire was also the guard to protect him from passing by wild animals. Never had he ever imagined that the Hatchet was so crucial to help him survive. Surprisingly Brain heard a plane approaching him. So he said to himself, "If that is a plane, someone must be here to save me!" But he was too late, the plane gone......gone. He could not understand why the plane was gone so fast. He mumbled to himself," I was too slow and could not make a smoke signal. I am lost...lost!" I really think that E.B. White and Gary Paulson are brothers. They both share similar writing styles. In Charlotte's Web E.B. White did not introduce the main character Charlotte until the 5th chapter while in HATCHET Gary Paulson used million words to describe a scene. Both authors like to paint pictures in your mind. They are very successful in keeping the stories so interesting that people glue their eyes to their books and cannot get them off!

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Summary: A boy named Brian becomes trapped in the Canadian wilderness
Review: A boy named Brian was going to visit his father after his mother and father divorced because of the secret. While on the plane the pilot suddenly has a heart attack and Brian is forced to land the plane himself. He becomes trapped in the Canadian wilderness for 54 long boring days. I did not like this book at all because the author elaborated too much. He would just sit there and write about what one tree looked like for 30 minutes. I believe this book was very boring and it did not put me one the edge of my seat when I read it. This book lost my interest on the first 8 chapters and if I was not required to read it for school I would have never finished it and just brought it back to the library. I hope someone out there enjoys this book but I know I didn't very much at all.

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Summary: A boy that is in a plane crash and is stranded in Canada.
Review: Hatchet was on a book about a 13-year-old boy stranded in the Canadian forest. It all started when Brian Robeson's parents had split up. So he is flying an one engine plane to visit his dad's for the summer. So then he is stranded in the Canadian wilderness. This was a good book because it is full of adventure and animals.

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Summary: Once You Start You Can't Stop
Review: When I started reading this book I could'nt stop. This thrilling novel is about a 13-year old boy that tries to survive in a Canadian Wilderness. All he has are his clothes and a Hatchet. He manages to survive using his Hatchet for tools and fire. All he has he owes to his Hatchet.

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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK
Review: This book was the best book I ever read. If you like this book you should read the other two novels in this series The Rive, and Brians Winter.

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Summary: It was a great book
Review: I thought that Hatchet was a good book because it kept my interest. I wanted to keep reading on and on. I only gave it four stars because I found it to be a little confusing. I think it would be better for twelve and thirteen year olds. (7)