Hatchet
 | By Gary Paulsen Aladdin, 2006, Paperback Customer Rating: 1162 reviews Recommend |
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Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present — and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent's divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair — it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.
For twenty years Gary Paulsen's award-winning contemporary classic has been the survival story with which all others are compared. This new edition, with a reading group guide, will introduce a new generation of readers to this page-turning, heart-stopping adventure.
Title: Hatchet
Sales Rank: 967 in Books
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Aladdin, 2006-12-26, Paperback, 192 pages, ISBN: 1416936475
Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches, 0.25 pounds
- An Exciting Survival Story
- Hatchet is one of Gary Paulsen's finest works. I think his goal was to establish a great young adult novel that is easy to become immersed in. He looks to create a book that is enjoyable and also has a lot of useful information about life in the wilderness.
Paulsen, a writer from Minneapolis, writes young adult novels usually about nature. He has written over… More reviews
- Better than I expected, but still...
- It was slightly better than I expected, though still pretty uninteresting with large gaps filled with nothing but boredom. (Comparable to Deathly Hallow's camping scenes) However, I did like Gary Paulson's narration style quite a bit, it came off as very natural and conversational. The one thing that bothered me about the narration was the repetition. There were… More reviews
- Fear Is Not An Option
- I've been on the biggest reading kick of my life here lately and I've been a bit nostalgic as well, so when I decided to re-read some of the books from my grade school years, I chose "Hatchet" first based on its inspirational tale of one lone pre-teen boy's survival.
Brian Robeson is a 13-year old boy on his way to visit his father up north. At the… More reviews
- One of the best I've ever read!
- Of course, like many of the reviewers, I had to read this for school. And it has turned out to be one of my most favorite books of all times! I LOVE this book!
If you do not like wilderness, don't read it
If you do not like very vivid detail and description, don't read it
If you do not like to believe that… More reviews
- Content may be too mature for young readers
- I was pre-reading this book for my 10-year-old who enjoys adventure stories (along the lines of "My Side of the Mountain") and was glad that I did. Some of the content of this book is NOT appropriate for this age -- for example, when the boy recalls the details of witnessing his mother engaged in an adulterous passionate kiss with her lover,… More reviews
