Hatchet

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Summary: A great book
Review: Wow! Hatchet is a great book! It is about a teenager named Brian. Since his parents are devorced, Brian desided to fly to his uncles house in Canada. Durring the flight the pilot has a hart attact. Great, now Brian is stranded in the Canada wilderness. Will he survive? Find out in Hatchet

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Summary: The most action packed book I've ever read! (collin, age 11)
Review: While flying to see his father, Brian (who is 14 years old) crashed into a lake.He survives the first few days without food, but about the 5th or 6th day that he was stranded he began to feel very hungry. Find out how Brian learns to survive and becomes part of the wilderness.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: A 13 year old fly to his Dad finding himseft the bush.Will he live or will he die. FIND OUT!

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Summary: A teenage boy stranded in the Canadian wilderness.
Review: It was the best book I'd ever read

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Summary: This is an excellent adventure book for young adults.
Review: First of all, I've loved every Gary Paulsen book I've ever read. "Hatchet" is no exception. Although fictional, this is a real story about a real boy. Gary Paulsen takes his knowledge of the wild obtained by his camping, kyaking, backpacking and such experiences and uses it to the fullest extent. Abstract and artistic, "Hatchet" is just amazing. Reader Beware: Do Not put the book down when Brian gets stranded. This is not a book where the hero "just happens" to have matches and a gun and a clean bubbling brook running alongside the lean-to he made out of deerskin. I hate such stories, and was pleasantly surprised that Brian had not been a boyscout. I felt as if he truly was a city boy thrown into the wilderness with no idea of it's dangers. He doesn't find delightful wild strawberries and when he comes face-to- face with a bear, a moose, and other such animals, he does not know how to handle it. On the first night, he suddenly realizes that he has no idea how to make a fire, and that the nature specials on PBS don't tell you all there is to know about the Canadian wilderness. As I read this book, I thought to myself, this is really what he would be thinking. I would react the same way if I were in his shoes. Once again, Gary Paulsen has out done himself. Do yourself a favor- read the book but do not see the movie. Hatchet has always been my favorite book, and will be for many years to come.

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Summary: -A primer on how to think, problem solve
Review: Hatchet is more than just a survival story. As Brian, a 13 yr old who is the only survivor of a plane crash while going to visit his father, learns to survive, he learns about himself as well as his surroundings. It is different than other survival books I have read because it guides you step by step through his thinking process. It is a primer on how to think, how to reason and problem solve, for this reason alone, I would love my children to read it.

Beyond that it is really entertaining. It is suspensful and full of surprising twists and turns. You feel as if you are right there, as if you were Brian.

The author Gary Paulsen has spent a lot of time in the woods; he has run two Iditarods (an Alaskan sled dog race). He says (after Brian's Return) that most of the things that happened to Brian have actually happened to him at one time or another.

I recommend this book for 10 yrs and up. I will read it again, and I look forward to reading it with my boys.

Sequels to this book (that should not be missed!) are The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt.

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Brian is a boy whoes parents are divorced and is only fourteen. I enjoyed this book a fair amount. I would recommend this book to children of divorced parents. I really liked the beginning of the book because there was a lot of action and the last part of the book because I liked the way Brian got saved from an island but I was not so fond of the middle of the book. I found the middle part of the book kind of boring. I liked the thought of all of the dangerous animals in the book. Overall I really liked the book. I give this book 3 stars.

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Summary: hatchet
Review: This book is great. It's an exciting adventure story about Brian, a 13 year old boy who must fend for himself in the Canadian wilderness. The author wrote it in such a way that I found myself wondering what I would do in Brian's situation. It was tense and realistic, but still had moments of humor (such as when he names his raft "Brushpile One", or when he gets a sudden windfall of food and decides to first "eat until he drops" and then be careful and ration the food.)
There are some gory and upsetting parts, but I didn't find it depressing.