Hatchet

Hatchet

By Gary Paulsen

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Book 1 of 5 in the  Brian's Saga Series
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 10 - 9R5.742328
This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.

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Brian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present, Brian finds himself completely alone.

Challenged by his fear and despair -- and plagued with the weight of a dreadful secret he's been keeping since his parent's divorce -- brian must tame his inner demons in order to survive. It will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9781481486293
ISBN-10: 1481486292
Published on 10/3/2017
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 224

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This is not the best book ever. I think it is not very good. But when my class read it, we did read it slowly. The movie is not that good either. I don not really like tha book Hatchet. I think other books are a lot better than Hatchet.

This book was so cool. It is like an adventure book. This guy lost it when he got lost and finds mysteries along the way.

probably the best book Gary Paulsen ever wrote. this book is adventures and awesome. its about a boy who has survived in a plane crash and its how he survives with out any adults. i've read this book about three times becuase it is so good

It was an OK book. I read it at school with my class.

"Hatchet" is one of my all-time favorite books. We will read this towards the end of the year. It is a suspenseful story about a boy who lives through a plane crash and survives in the wild with just his hatchet.

he was very brave to suvive on his own but you might get a little bored between reading it but have to pay attention

This book is great.

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